National Gallery of Modern Art

This gallery's guide traces the short life of painter Amrita Sher-Gil, born in Budapest to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian singer, who by nineteen became the youngest associate the Paris Grand Salon had ever accepted before turning toward India instead. It follows what happened to her paintings after her death at twenty-eight, and the tangle her husband faced trying to place them in Indian hands. The building itself began as a maharaja's own Delhi residence, built in nineteen thirty-six.