a) TRENDS IN INDIAN PAINTING: ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, MODERN
By Manohar Kaul
Foreword by Dr S. Radhakrishnan
New Delhi: Dhoomimal Ramchand
1961
pp. xv, 232 with 58 tipped-in colour plates [many full-page] and 76 tipped-in b&w plates acrossthetext
Size: 13 x 10 in
Grey rexine, only missing original dustjacket
A rare and important study with more than half the book relating to modern and contemporary Indian art, with bibliography and index.

b) MODERN INDIAN PAINTING
By P. R. Ramachandra Rao
French resume by Marcella Hardy
MADRAS: Rachana /1953
pp. [iv], 100 + pp. 38 French resume
Tipped-in frontispiece + 22 colour plates tipped in across the text + 43 plates with 203 reproductions of paintings in b&w
size: 13 x 10 in
Original cloth hardback with red lettering on cover and spine and the sketch of a dancer on cover.
Comprehensively covers the entire gamut of artists from Bengal School and Santiniketan to Western School,Calcutta Group, Delhi, and Madras School with a chapter discussing Chughtai, Rabindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy and Sher-Gil. But prudery has prompted the publishers to tamper with two nudes by Sher-Gil and F. N. Souza.

c) THREE PAINTERS
By R. de L. Furtado
New Delhi: Dhoomimal Ramchand
1960
pp. 23 + 49 plates
Covers Amrita Sher-Gil, George Keyt and M. F. Husain with 16 tipped-in plates by each and frontispiece by Keyt.
Large, elusive hardback with atorn dustjacket
Size 13.5 x 10 in
.br.d) CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PAINTERS
By G. Venkatachalam
Bombay: Nalanda Publications
pp. xvi, 120 + 15 plates
Dedicated to Jawaharlal Nehru
Has chapters on 15 artists: Abanindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, K. Venkatappa, Deviprasad Roychoudhry, M. A. Rahman Chughtai, Sarada Charan Ukil, Asit Kumar Haldar, Mukul Chandra Dey, D. Rama Rao, Sunayani Devi, Jamini Roy, Promode Kumar Chatterjee, Pulin Behari Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore.
One painting by each artist figures in the book.
Excellently rebound ex-library copy. Title-page clean.
Size: 9.5 x 7.25 in

e) CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ARTISTS
By Geeta Kapur
M.F. Husain, Bhupen Khakhar, Akbar Padamsee, F. N. Souza, Ram Kumar, J. Swaminathan
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House
pp.xxii, 225 with bibliography and index + 72 plates
1979 [reprint of 1978 ed.]
Black cloth binding with dustjacket
Size: 9 x 5.5 in
A seminal work by India's leading art critic, now quite scarce. All essays written after extensive conversations with artists.
Ex-Library copy but with title-page clean. A good copy without dust jacket

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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