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Lot No :

V R CHITRA

ENCHANTED HIMALAYAS


Estimate: Rs 12,000-Rs 15,000 ( $165-$205 )


ENCHANTED HIMALAYAS

Tokio: The Kogabo Process Sha, Kanda

11 plates (Offset lithograph & collotype) of which seven are in colour and four in black and white, With a 7-page booklet (13 x 9 inches / printed at Devi Press, Madras) loosely inserted. This has a 2-page 'foreword' by Nicholas Roerich with his printed signatures, signed in Naggar, Kulu Valley, Pictorial paragraphs by T N Srinivasan, Solander box with cloth binding and leather spine
44.5 x 36 x 3 cm

Limited edition of 500 copies of which 100 are signed by VR Chitra. This copy is numbered 74.

The list of titles of plates is lacking. But another copy shows the 11 plates are titled:
1. Hills and dales as seen from the foot of the Himalayas
2. Sunrise behind the mountains as seen from Almorah
3. Waterfall in Shillong, Assam
4. Nilkanta as seen from Hanuman Chatty
5. The pilgrim route to the sacred Badrinath
6. Morning mist on Kanchanjunga
7. Melting snows
8. Kashmir valley and the river Jhelum
9. A Himalayan waterfall
10. Wular Lake and Pir Panjal range