- GEORGE KEYT
Introduction and Biographical Note by Martin Russell
BOMBAY: Marg Publications
February, 1950
pp. 55 + 101 plates, many of them colour which are tipped-in
Size: 14 x 10.5 inches
Printed on Jaipur hand-made paper
Original sackcloth binding with title printed on red paper pasted on cover.
First page of the list of plates blank due to printer's error
Ex-library
- GEORGE KEYT - A CENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY
Colombo: George Keyt Foundation, April 2001
Pp xiv, 184
Size: 12 x 11.5 inches
Writings on and by Keyt, Portfolio of paintings [pp. 57-110], memorabilia, bio-biliography [1923-1988], murals, essay by his daughter Diana Keyt, obituaries etc.
The book is bound in Bangladeshi jutewith Keyt's signatures blown up and printed on cover in black and with a fine dustjacket.
Has a very large number of Keyt's paintings and photographs
Condition: Very Good
- GEORGE KEYT DRAWINGS
Edited, with an Introduction and a Descriptive Catalogue, by H. A. I. Goonetileke
Colombo: George Keyt Foundation, 1990
LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies
pp. 91 with 236 illustrations
size: 12 x 8.5 inches
Bound in white handwoven cloth with a Keyt sketch printed in maroon on cover and with a fine dustjacket
Condition: Very Good
Unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 1000
- GEORGE KEYT INTERPRETATIONS
By Sunil Goonasekera
Kandy, Sri Lanka: Institute of Fundamental Studies, 1991
LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies
pp. 160 with numerous colour and b&w plates
size: 11 x 9 inches
Green cloth binding with fine dustjacket
Condition: Very Good
A 90th birthday tribute to Keyt covering his career up to 1970s
- SHRI JAYADEVA'S GITA GOVINDA - THE LOVES OF KRSHNA & RADHA
Rendered from the Sanskrit and illustrated by GEORGE KEYT
Bombay: Kutub
December 1947
pp. 103 with colour tipped-in plate as frontispiece and 12 full-page line drawings
- Arts of Asia,January-February 1973 issue published from Hong Kong
Has an 8-page essay titled
GEORGE KEYT - THE INDIAN ETHOS IN A CEYLONESE STUDIO
By H. A. I. Goonetileke with 12 illustrations including 2 photographs of Keyt and the rest his paintings. The cover also carries a painting by Keyt.
- KAMA SUTRA BY VATSYAYANA
Illustrated by GEORGE KEYT
Stockholm/ Published 1965
5 illustrations
Paperback
- FOLK STORIES OF SRI LANKA by GEORGE KEYT
COLOMBO: Lake House Investments
1982 [Third Ed./ First pub. 1974]
pp. 75 + 9 b&w and 1 colour plate
Softcover
EX-LIBRARY
- TALES FROM INDIAN MYTHOLOGY
By A.S. Raman
Illustrated by GEORGE KEYT
BOMBAY: June 1961
pp. 123 + 12full-page illustrations in red by Keyt
Fine hardback with fine dustjacket
Size 8 x 6.5 inches
RARE
- GEORGE KEYT
14-page essay on the great Ceylonese artist with 8 full-page colour illustrations of his paintings
In the book 'InDen Garten Ravanas - Sri Lanka-Insel im Ozean" by Willi Meinck
Published in Leipzig in 1986
Text in German
- Liebe Als Universelle Idee : GEORGE KEYT - Ein Ceylonesischer maler geht neue wege
3-page essay with 9 illustrations in complete issue of MERCEDES-BENZ IN ALLER WELT for 1986
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