Amrita Sher-Gil was an Indian painter born in 1913 in Budapest, Hungary who died in 1941 in Lahore, India. She received her training in art at the Grande Chaumiere and Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1930-1934. Sher-Gil was one of the most promising Indian artists of the pre-colonial era and the youngest ever to be elected as an Associate of the Grand Salon in Paris. Some of her most notable paintings include Three Girls, Camels, Brahmacharis, The Child Bride, Hill Man, Portrait of a Young Man, and Two Elephants.