Google doodles to celebrate Amrita Sher-Gil's 103rd birthday

Today's Google Doodle is in honour of Amrita Sher-Gil, considered one of the most prominent Indian painters of the 20th century.The Doodle is to celebrate Amrita Sher-Gil's 103rd birthday and pays tribute to her popular painting - Three Girls. Apart from the Google India page, the doodle is live in Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Iceland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, and Lithunia.Born on January 30, 1913 to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother, she died at a young age of 28. She studied and practiced in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where she got her start as an artist and life consummate bohemian. Her work became a clear salute to the feminine form, and Sher-Gil into an uncompromising talent, writes doodler Jennifer Hom.To create the final version, Hom reworked the image to match Sher-Gil's style and signature attention to the tone, texture and color of skin and clothing.Amrita Sher-Gil's work can be seen online at the National Gallery of Modern Art.