Mother India (painting)

Mother India is an oil on canvas painting by Hungarian-born Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913 – 1941), completed in May/June 1935 in Simla. The painting depicts an Indian peasant mother with her son and daughter, and was 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. There it was priced at ₹500. Under India's Antiquities and Art Treasures Act (1972), the work is a national art treasure and must stay in the country.