In 1921, her family moved to Summer Hill, Shimla, India, and soon began learning piano and violin, and by age nine she along with her younger sister Indira were giving concerts and acting in plays at Shimla's Gaiety Theatre at Mall Road, Shimla [REF].
At sixteen, Sher-Gil sailed to Europe with her mother to train as a painter at Paris, first at the Grande Chaumiere under Pierre Vaillent and Lucien Simon and later at École des Beaux-Arts (1930-34) [REF].