Saloni Mathur

Saloni Mathur is professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, the head of the department of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and author of India by Design (2007). Her paper "A Retake of Sher-Gil's Self-Portrait as Tahitian" (2011), analyses the influences of Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Japonisme, on Hungarian-born Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil's painting titled Self-Portrait as a Tahitian.