NEW DELHI:
Gita Uplekar, the girl holding the lamp in the celebrated painting ‘Glow of Hope’ — also called ‘Woman with the Lamp’ — passed away at 102 on Tuesday evening.
She breathed her last at her daughter’s
Kolhapur residence after a brief illness, said family sources.
Gita had been living in Kolhapur since the 1940s after her marriage to jeweller Krishnakant Uplekar. She is survived by two daughters and a son.
Painted in 1945-46, the watercolour by SL Haldankar is now housed in
Jaganmohan Palace Art Gallery in Mysuru.
