The titles in this lot are listed below. Details about each book follow further down.
1. BENGAL AND MODERNITY - EARLY 20TH CENTURY ART IN INDIA
2. THE ART OF SANTINIKETAN
3. LALIT KALA CONTEMPORARY 2
4. ALBUM 1960-1991: SOCIETY OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS CALCUTTA
5. MUKUL DEY: BIRTH CENTENARY EXHIBITION OF INTAGLIO PRINTS & DRAWINGS
6. THE GRAPHIC ART OF MUKUL DEY by J H Bender
7. SAILOZ
8. SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA: A HOMAGE BY HIS STUDENTS
9. SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA [Lalit Kala Akademi]
10. REVISITING SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA 1907-1960
11. PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS by SUDHIR KHASTGIR
12. PAINTINGS by SUDHIR R. KHASTGIR
13. SUDHIR RANJAN KHASTGIR
14. LAL DHARTI [Illustrated by Chittaprosad]
15. KSHITINDRANATH MAJUMDAR [Lalit Kala Akademi]
a)
BENGAL AND MODERNITY - EARLY 20TH CENTURY ART IN INDIA
Catalogue of a 2015 exhibition at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Essays by Mallica Kumbera Landrus, Shailendra Bhandare [IMAGE AND INTERPRETATION: A WOODBLOCK PRINT OF 'INDIA' BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE] and Partha Mitter [RABINDRANATH TAGORE AND THE AUSTRIAN JUGENDSTIL DECORATION]
pp. 84
Card covers/ 11 x 8 inches
Out of print
b)
THE ART OF SANTINIKETAN: Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Rabindranath Tagore
With 5 critical essays
New Delhi: DAG Modern
2015
pp. 350, profusely illustrated
Hardback / 11 x 10 inches
c)
LALIT KALA CONTEMPORARY 2
New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi
pp. 53 + 4 tipped-in colour plates and many b&w plates
c. 1981
5 essays:
Notes towards a biography of Amrita Sher-Gil by Charles Fabri
Gaganendranath Tagore by Asok Mitra
Jamini roy by Amrita
Form and elements in the visual work of Rabindranath Tagore by Stella Kramrisch
Four initiators of the contemporary experimentalism by Mulk Raj Anand
Stiff cards/ 12 x 9.5 inches
RARE
d)
ALBUM 1960-1991: SOCIETY OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS CALCUTTA
Calcutta: Society of Contemporary Artists
1991
No pagination [pp. 119] with numerous colour plates
Cloth binding with dustjacket
Size 11 x 8.5 inches
e)
MUKUL DEY: BIRTH CENTENARY EXHIBITION OF INTAGLIO PRINTS & DRAWINGS
Curator Santo Datta
New Delhi: National Gallery of Modern Art
1989
pp. 28 with 22 illustrations, biographical sketch, list of 100 exhibits.
Includes essay "Mukul Dey: My Father" by Dr Manjari Ukil
Stapled stiff cards
Size 11 x 9 inches
f)
THE GRAPHIC ART OF MUKUL DEY by J H Bender
16-page essay with 8 illustrations in a complete 1939 issue of The Print Collector's Quarterly, Published in Kansas City, USA.
Softcover / 7 x 5 inches
g)
SAILOZ
Introduction by A. S. RAMAN
NEW DELHI: Dhoomi Mal Dharam Das
No date [c. 1950]
pp. 6 Introduction and 9 colour plates and 30 b&w plates
Softcover with a colour plate tipped-in on cover
h)
SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA: A HOMAGE BY HIS STUDENTS
Essays and tributes by A S Raman, K B Goel and others
Catalogue of exhibition held at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, in 1986
No title-page [as issued]. Cover only reproduces artist's signatures.
Title and publication details at the bottom of the last page
pp. 16 with numerous sketches + 8 colour plates carrying 10 works of art
Stapled monograph
Size 10.5 x 8.5 inches
RARE
i)
SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA
By Jaya Appasamy
New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi
1966
pp. viii + 23 plates, biographical note, list of paintings
stiff cards with dustjacket
size 7 x 5 inches
j)
REVISITING SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA 1907-1960
4-fold card [8 sides] with essay by Samit Das
Issued by Dhoomimal Art Centre, New Delhi, on the occasion of an exhibition
The folder has 3 colour plates, 2 drawings and a portrait
Size 8 x 6 inches
k)
PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS by SUDHIR KHASTGIR
Dehra Dun: The Doon School
Signed by Khastgir on the title page
4-page essay by Pulinbihari Sen followed by 12 tipped-in plates
c. 1940
String-bound as issued/ Cover has a plate pasted on it
Size 11.5 x 9 inches
Condition very good
Sudhir Ranjan Khastgir [1907-74] was a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose. For a time he worked as an art teacher at Doon School.
l)
PAINTINGS by SUDHIR R. KHASTGIR
Unnumbered copy of an edition limited to 200 copies signed by artist in English and Bengali.
Dehra Dun: Chand Bagh [Doon School campus]
4-page introduction by R. L. Mehta followed by 14 plates
1945
Bound with ribbon as issued
Size 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Condition fine
Some plates in this and the previous Khastgir volume overlap.
m)
SUDHIR RANJAN KHASTGIR
9-page essay by Dinkar Kowshik
Lucknow: State Lalit Kala Akademi
1978
pp. 35 with portrait plus 18 plates [4 in colour]
Softcover / 9 x 9 inches
n)
LAL DHARTI [Red Earth] by Amrit Rai [Hindi novelist Premchand's son]
A collection of 10 left-leaning essays on Indian and international politics with 10 woodcuts by CHITTOPRASAD, each signed in full within the woodcut.
Text in Hindi / pp. 133
Lacks title page and back cover [replaced].
No date [c. 1950]
Paper-covered board with an illustration by Chittoprasad on cover.
Size 7 x 5 inches
CONDITION: Poor. But a rare and unrecorded book illustrated by the leftist artist.
o)
KSHITINDRANATH MAJUMDAR
pp. 8 text with essays by Binode Behari Mukherjee and Jaya Appasamy
With 22 plates
New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi / 1967
Size 7 x 5 inches
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