a) SIX INDIAN PAINTERS
Introduction by GEETA KAPUR
46-page catalogue of Tate Gallery, London, exhibition held in 1982
Rabindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, M. F.Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, Bhupen Khakhar
Softcover
Size: 8 x8 in
b) INDIA MYTH AND REALITY: Aspects of Modern Indian Art
Catalogue of exhibition held at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, in 1982
Introduction by David Elliott, VictorMusgrave, E. Alkazi
pp. 80 and 4-page list of exhibits loosely inserted
Covers 20 artists including Husain, Souza, Gujral, Raza, Padamsee, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, Khanna, Kaleka, Broota, Anish Kapoor, Ramachandran.
Includes essays:
The Contemporary Situation in India Art by K. G. Subramanyan
An Engagement with Reality by Deepak Ananth
Art and Redemption - Ramachandran's Quest by Krishna Chaitanya
Nalini Malani by Geeta Kapur
Five Poems by Gieve Patel
Four Poems by M. F.Husain
Nirvana of a Maggot by F. N. Souza
Softcover
Size: 8x 8 in
c) CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART
An exhibition of the Festival of India, 1982, at the Royal academy of Arts, London
pp. 100
7-page introduction by Geeta Kapur
44 artists covered. Each given 2-page space with portrait, 1 or 2 illustrations and bio.
Card covers
Size: 9.5 x 8.5 in
d) TIMELESS VISION : CONTEMPORARY ART FROM INDIA
From The Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection
By Susan S. Bean
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, Massachusetts, 1999
Size: 11x 8 in
e) INDISCHE KUNST HEUTE
Exhibition Catalogue from the Kunsthalle Darmstadt
Darmstadt, 1982
f) NEUE KUNST AUS INDIEN
Exhibition catalogue from the Iwalewa-Haus Bayreuth
Bayreuth, 1982
Size: 8.75 x 8.25 in
g) ZEITGENOSSISCHE INDISCHE MALEREI
Exhibition Catalogue from the Paulskirche
Frankfurt, 1986
Size: 8.5 x 5.75 in
h) FROM ART TO ART, ESSAYS AND CRITIQUE BY PRABHAKAR KOLTE
Bodhana Arts Foundation, 2008
Hardcover and dustjacket
Size: 10 x 7 in
i) CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART
An exhibition from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Family Collection wtih a foreword by Thomas W. Sokolowski and Daniel A. Herwitz.
Published by Grey Art Gallery and Study Art Centre, New York University, 1985.
Card cover, good condition
Size: 12 x 9 in
j) CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS OF INDIA a collection of six original coloured plates designed and produced by the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity, Ministryof Imformation for the Department of Tourism and printed by the Comercial Printing Press Limited, Bombay, India.
List of plates:
1.Under The Tree - MF Husain
2.Bathers - Shanti Dave
3.Kashmiri Girl - J. Sultan Ali
4.Peacock - Devayani Krishna
5.Bhil Labourer - N. S. Bendre
6.Santhal Girl - B. Prabha
Size: 10.75 x 8.5 in
PROVENANCE:
Property from an Eminent Parsi Collection, UK
This lot is from the collection of an eminent Parsi gentleman based in London. He began collecting books over 25 years ago, when he studied History of Art at Cambridge in the 1980s. His initial focus was on the Bombay Progressives. He is now offering a selection from his library with favourites ranging from Amrita Sher-gil, George Keyt, M F Husain and F N Souza, and a very rare privately printed, limited edition book illustrated by Bhupen Kakhar.
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