List of paintings by Amrita Sher-Gil

[6] In the summer of 1932, she submitted six paintings to the "end of year concours", Paris, for which she received second mention in her capacity as foreigner.

[6] Sher-Gil later wrote that "towards the end of 1933 I began to be haunted by an intense longing to return to India, feeling in some strange inexplicable way that there lay my destiny as a painter".

[10] In September 1935, five of her 10 submitted paintings were shown at the 63rd annual Simla Fine Arts Exhibition, opened by Viceroy Lord Willingdon.

[11] The Man in White, The Woman in Blue, The Model, Portrait of Malcolm Muggeridge, and a small landscape were rejected.

[11] Feeling that they did not recognise the best of her work, she declined the Raja of Faridkot's prize the judges awarded her for Young Girls.

[11] In March 1936, Sher-Gil won awards for two self-portraits at the fifth annual exhibition of the All-India Fine Arts Society, held at The Imperial, New Delhi.

[12] Barada Ukil included 11 of Sher-Gil's works in his arts exhibition at The Cecil, Simla, held in September 1936.

[13] These included Portrait of Mr. F. M. Khan, A Village Scene, Mother India, Composition, The Dreamer, and The Girl in Red.

[14] There, the wealthy art collector, Nawab Salar Jung, showed interest in two paintings, was offered three, then declined to purchase any.

[16] From 21 to 27 November that year, 33 of her works were displayed at her solo exhibition at Faletti's Hotel in Lahore, British India.

[18] At Lahore, four paintings were sold in total; The Little Girl in Blue, The Story, Pink Self-portrait, and the Vina Player.

[21] Returning to India in 1939, she moved to Saraya, Uttar Pradesh, and there her creations included Woman on Charpoy, Elephant Promenade, The Ancient Story Teller, and Haldi Grinders.

[21][22] The dome of the family's estate features in the background of some of these, though she omits the Saraya Sugar Mills and its chimneys and smoke.

[23] In 1940, six of Sher-Gil's works were displayed at the Indian Academy of Fine Arts' Amritsar Exhibition (31 October – 10 November), to raise money for the War Fund.

[26] In 1979 her works including Camels and Ancient Story Teller, were displayed at an exhibition in New delhi, organised by the Budapest Kunsthalle.

[9] A smaller version: In January 1937, she mentions selling a "picture of the two children on a hillside I had painted in Zebegény", at the Hyderabad exhibition for ₹250 in December 1936.

[46] Number 25 of 33 of Sher-Gil's works displayed at her solo exhibition at Faletti's Hotel in Lahore, British India, held from 21 to 27 November 1937.

[57] According to Prouteaux, she left the painting in a warehouse in Grenoble, shortly after the German occupation of Paris.

[17] It was later left with the Indian National Congressman and her friend Diwan Chaman Lall "to see if he could palm it off on someone but he wasn't successful".

[17] In 1940, the painting was one of six of Sher-Gil's works displayed at the Indian Academy of Fine Arts' Amritsar Exhibition (31 October – 10 November), to raise money for the War Fund.

[22] Possibly the painting Sher-Gil calls Pink Self-portrait, sold at the Lahore exhibition in November 1937.

[17] Sher-Gil in a letter to Khandelwal dated 19 December 1937, wrote "my fantasy (which I have called Painting)",[91] and was priced at ₹350 at Lahore.

[26] In 1940, the painting was one of six of Sher-Gil's works displayed at the Indian Academy of Fine Arts' Amritsar Exhibition (31 October – 10 November), to raise money for the War Fund.

[21] Depicts the white tower of Kiskunhalas church behind people dressed in black[9] Portrays Egan in army uniform, and sold in 2020 to Manoj Israni for ₹10.86 crore.

[107] The painting was one of six of Sher-Gil's works displayed at the Indian Academy of Fine Arts' Amritsar Exhibition (31 October – 10 November), to raise money for the War Fund.

[9] The main figure is modelled on (Tejwant Kaur (Teji), daughter of Kirpal Singh Majithia, Sher-Gil's cousin.

[112] In 1940, the painting was one of six of Sher-Gil's works displayed at the Indian Academy of Fine Arts' Amritsar Exhibition (31 October – 10 November), to raise money for the War Fund.

[116] From Sardarnagar, Gorakhpur, Sher-Gil wrote to Badruddin Tyabji on 3 September 1941 that she had completed the Village Girls after at least six months of not looking at her brushes.