- PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES ON MAHATMA GANDHI
New Delhi: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
c. 1970s
12 colour plates with titles tipped-in on handmade-paper sheets and loosely inserted in a portfolio, contained in an envelope, as issued.
The 12 plates show paintings and sculptures by Jamini Roy, Nandalal Bose, Kanu Desai, W. Langhammer, Gopal Ghosh, R. N. Chakravorty, V. P. Karmarkar, Ramkinkar Baij and 4 Western artists.
Size: 12 x 9 inches
Envelope frayed
- PAINTINGS OF ISHWAR DASS
Introduction by Manu Thacker
pp. 12 + 12 tipped in plates with tissue guards bearing their titles
Published by The Times of India, Bombay, on behalf of Ishwar Dass, Lucknow
1949
Black rexine hardcover with gilt-embossed title on cover
Spine lacking
Size: 12 x 9.5 inches
- KANU DESAI'S PAINTINGS IN WATER COLOURS
With an introduction by Kulapati Dr James H. Cousins
BOMBAY: D. B. Taraporevala Sons
pp. 4 + 10 tipped-in colour plates on thickcoloured cards
No date [c. 1940s]
Card covers bound with silk tie. Spine frayed
Size: 12.5 x 10 inches
- MANGALASHTAKA - Pictures of Love Life and Marriage by Kanu Desai
8 loose monochrome plates on thick cards in original folderwith 8-page booklet in Gujarati
Carrying an introduction by Ravishankar Raval and a poem by Chandravadan Mehta
1943 [Seventh Edition]
Folder worn and damaged
Size: 11.5 x 9.5 inches
- THE CALL OF INDIA - Retrospective Exhibition ofPaintings by ELIZABETH SASS BRUNNER and ELIZABETH BRUNNER
Published in New Delhi in 2010
pp. 228
- MYSTIC INDIA THROUGH ART
By Mrs Sass Brunner Elizabeth Farkas and Miss Elizabeth Brunner
A sampler of the book's plates and text .br.Original orange cloth-covered boards with title embossed in gilt on cover and held together with silk strings and enclosed in original flap box with title on cover.
Size: 12 x 9.5 inches
Has Preface by Mrs Sass Brunner, facsimile of letter by Mahatma Gandhi, letter with printed signature of Rabindranath Tagore, and selected pages of photographs, paintings and text pages [pp. 15-22/ 40-41/ 45-47/ 50-52/ 103/ 77-78/ 54-55/ 65-66/ 61-62/ 71-72/ 81-82/ 88-99/ 104/ 107-108/ 115-117/ 122-130]
All pages and plates printed on one side only. There are some pages with tipped-in colour plates.
Unusual
Includes paintings of Gandhiji, Krishnamurti and Tagore. Some colour plates and proofs loosely inserted at the end.
This is not the complete book which was published under this name in the 1930s but its sampler for prospective buyers. There is a sticker at the end giving the Brunners' address to order copies.
This lot will be sold in "as is" condition.
There may be some minor tears/creases scratches, or holes commensurate with age that may not be visible in the images.
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