Amrit Shergil was an eminent Indian painter. Most of her paintings vividly reflect her love for the country and her response to the life of its people. Her paintings were not mere reproductions of what she saw around her but visions born out of the synergy of colour, design and emotion. She was daughter of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Sikh aristocrat and also a scholar in Sanskrit and Persian, and Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, a Jewish Opera singer from Hungary. Sher-Gil was the elder of two daughters born to Umrao Singh and Marie Antoinette. She is considered an important women painter of 21st century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India. Today, she is amongst Nine Masters, whose work was declared as art treasures by The Archaeological Survey of India, in 1976 and 1979 .