Young Girls (painting)

Young Girls
Artist	Amrita Sher-Gil
Year	1932
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	164 cm × 133 cm (65 in × 52 in)
Location	National Gallery of Modern Art at Jaipur House, New Delhi
Owner	Government of India
Followed by	Professional Model

Young Girls is an oil on canvas painting created by Amrita Sher-Gil in 1932 in Paris. It was awarded a gold medal at the 1933 Paris Salon and earned Sher-Gil an associate membership of that institution. It is a national art treasure under India's Antiquities and Art Treasures Act (1972), and is held at the National Gallery of Modern Art at Jaipur House, New Delhi.

As a child, Sher-Gil was encouraged by her uncle, Ervin Baktay, to carefully observe the reality around her and transfer it to her work. She was studying art at Beaux-Arts de Paris, when she painted Young Girls. Set in an affluent home, it depicts two women in close conversation modelled on her sister and a friend. The dark woman is positioned upright and the light skin woman is slouched, with her blonde hair partially covering a naked breast.

Several commentators have seen the painting as reflecting Sher-Gil's divided identity: Indian, European, colonial subject, and woman.