Arpita Singh , an Indian painter whose hallucinatory work fused allusions to real-world violence with uninterpretable dream imagery, died on Monday in New Delhi. She was 89, according to a report by the Tribune that cited confirmation from her husband, the artist Paramjit Singh.

Singh frequently switched her technique and way of working across her six-decade-long career, though she is today most well-known for hallucinatory figurative paintings that are steeped in Hindu lore and Indian history. In her most famous paintings, gods and laypeople appear to float through the air in landscapes that vaguely recall maps.

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