Charles Fabri

Charles Fabri (18 November 1899 – 7 July 1968) was a Hungarian art critic, writer, and Indologist.

He was a former curator of the Kern Institute Library, Leiden University, curator of the Lahore Museum, Pakistan, and later lecturer at the National Museum of India, New Delhi, before lecturing at the Architecture and Art Departments of Delhi Polytechnic.

[4] That year he first met artist Amrita Sher-Gil in November, when as art critic for the Civil and Military Gazette, he reported on her solo exhibition held in the ballroom of Faletti's Hotel in Lahore, British India.

[7] There, with the assistance of Diwan Chaman Lall, Fabri acquired The Little Girl in Blue and it remained in his family until being sold in 2018.

[11] Set in the 1930s it features a Lahore Museum director falling in love with a 23 year old painter based on Sher-Gil.

[11] The dedication in the book reads " to the beloved, undying memory of AMRITA and her sisters and brothers of the new India".

[2] His masterpiece, Fundamental: History of Indian Art (1956-1958), created with the assistance of the Bollingen Foundation, remains unpublished.