The Little Girl in Blue is an oil painting on canvas created in 1934 near Amritsar, India, by Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913 – 1941).

In December of that year, she visited her family's ancestral home near Amritsar, and painted Lalit Kaur Mann, an eight-year-old girl who lived across the road.

The painting was subsequently one of 33 of Sher-Gil's works displayed at her successful solo exhibition at Faletti's Hotel in Lahore, British India, held in 1937.

[3] There, she was influenced by her uncle, Ervin Baktay, who introduced her to Nagybánya artistic methods and plein air painting.

[6] In 1934, Sher-Gil was staying with her uncle Sunder Singh Majithia at the family's ancestral home, Majitha Palace, near Amritsar.

[9][10][b] Mann's maternal grandfather, Sir Jogendra Singh, and Sher-Gil's father were good friends, had summer and winter residences near each other, and it was usual to visit each other's homes.

[9] Mann said in an interview with cultural editor of Mint, Radhika Iyengar:[7][12] My father, Col. Sir Buta Singh, entertained a lot (of guests) and the house was always full of visitors.

[12] It is set on a background of Amritsar's natural parkland and has an older woman in pinkish, positioned at the back towards the left; added at a later date.

[14] The painting was subsequently number 12 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.

[15] Charles Fabri, an art critic for the Civil and Military Gazette and present at the Lahore exhibition was quoted as saying in general that "Miss Sher-Gil's oeuvre is essentially modern without being fantastic.

[6] Art historian Yashodhara Dalmia notes that "the colour blue made an impact with its rich, translucent hues".

[6] This she felt was part of the transition from Paris, where blues and greens were typical, to India, where she soon dropped those tones with the introduction of more reds and browns, as seen in her subsequent painting Three Girls.