The Vina Player

The Vina Player
A woman playing Veena to another woman
ArtistAmrita Sher-Gil
Year1937
Mediumoil on canvas
SubjectVeena, women
LocationLahore Museum, Lahore, Pakistan

The Vina Player (1937) is an oil on canvas painting by Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil. It was number five of her 33 paintings displayed at her solo exhibition in the ballroom at Faletti's Hotel in Lahore, British India, held from 21 to 27 November 1937. Sher-Gil's mother's favourite, it was initially not for sale, but then acquired by the Lahore Museum, through the encouragement of art critic Charles Fabri and the then museum's curator K. N. Sitaram.[1][2]

  1. ^ Sundaram 2010b, p. 418-424
  2. ^ Dalmia 2013, p. 104