THE ART SOCIETY OF INDIA 3rd EXHIBITION, WILSON COLLEGE, BOMBAY
6th April 1929
pp. 14 + 16 plates with 32 illustrations
Stapled softcover
9 x 5.5 inches
THE ART SOCIETY OF INDIA [Bombay] - The Silver Jubilee Fine Art Exhibition 1943
pp. 12 + 24 plates + ads
Includes priced lists of paintings on show
Stapled softcover. Upper cover nearly detached.
Size 10 x 7.5 inches
THE BOMBAY ART SOCIETY - PICTURES OF THE 47TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
1938
pp. 48 with around 100 illustrations, each plate with a tissue guard.
Pink wrappers
10 x 7.5 inches
BOMBAY ART SOCIETY GOLDEN JUBILEE EXHIBITION 1939
Pp. 88 + vi and numerous ads, many related to or by Indian artist???s studios, in the beginning andend
Size: 10 x 7.5 inches
Except 1-page 'Note' by V. V. Oak and 6 pages of index at the end there is no text. The entire issue is full of paintings by various artists, 2 or more to a page, reproduced in monochrome PLUS some full-page colour plates. Also a few works by photographers and sculptors. Hundreds of artists from all across India represented, from Mukul Dey and H. Mazumdar to numerous long-forgotten ones.
Condition: covers detached and the text block loose but all complete and fine.
Provenance: Some stamps in Gujarati of 'Bharat High School Pustakalaya'
THE BOMBAY ART SOCIETY - 50TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
1941
pp. 58 with around 100 illustrations.
Illustrated wrappers
10 x 7.5 inches
Disbound and somepages at the beginning and end partially stained.
BOMBAY ART SOCIETY 54th ANNUAL EXHIBITION 1945
PP. 42 + ads
18 pages of list of exhibits and 38 plates with numerous paintings
Size: 10 x 7.5 inches
THE BOMBAY ART SOCIETY - 63rdANNUAL EXHIBITION, 1953-54
pp. 42 with around 70 illustrations
Illustrated wrappers
10 x 7.5 inches
STORY OF SIR J. J. SCHOOL OF ART
By N. M. Kelkar [according to Foreword]
Published by the school on its centenary in 1957
pp. 211
Fine hardcover with fine dust jacket
9.5 x 8.5 inches
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