A nude back turns toward a painted nude on the wall

Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) painted Torso in 1932, during her training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris — and it remains one of the most assured academic nudes of early Indian modernism. The model is seen from behind, her back rendered in warm ochres and golds against a cool slate-blue interior, with a framed nude on the wall answering the living figure like an echo. The handling is sculptural and unsentimental, the influence of Cézanne and the Post-Impressionists absorbed into something already unmistakably Sher-Gil's own. Works from this Paris period won her the Grand Salon's recognition at just twenty.

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