- DRAWINGS BY FOURTEEN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF BENGAL
With an introduction by Nirode Mazumdar
Calcutta: Kala Mandir/ 1970
No pagination [pp.35] with 14 full-page drawings
Size: 11 x 9 inches
Paper-covered boards with a ragged dustjacket
Condition: Fair. Has some pinholes
A scarce book, it covers: Somnath Hore, Mohim Roodro, Nikhil Biswas, Bijon Choudhury, Rabin Mondal, Prokash Karmakar, Gopal Sanyal, Isha Mahammad, Shyamal Dutta Roy, Sanat Kar, Suhas Roy, Ganesh Pyne, SunilDas and Bikash Bhattacharjee
- A HANDBOOK OF BENGAL SCHOOL
Introduction by Laxmi P. Sihare
NEW DELHI : National Gallery of Modern Art
c. 1970, pp. 34 with 31 full-page monochrome plates
card covers
size: 10.5 x 8.5 inches
- HUMAN RIGHTS by Artists of Bengal
Exhibition of paintings and sculptures held in August-September 1989
Presented by Alliance Francaise de Calcutta and Birla Academy of Art & Culture
33 loose sheets with a colour reproduction of 1 painting each and the artist's bio on the back
size: 10 x 7 inches
- ART MOSAIC - In Celebration of Calcutta's Tercentenary
Foreword: Prodosh Dasgupta
CALCUTTA: Purnima Productions/ 1990
No. 1696 of a "Limited Numbered Edition"
No pagination [pp. 60 + 86 colour plates]
Hardback with dustjacket, title embossed on cover in gilt
Size: 11.2 x 8.7 inches
The 86 plates consists of full-page paintings by eminent Indian artists, many with their thumbnail portrait-sketches
Ithas 9 essays on aspects of Calcutta including "The evolving style of Bengal School of Art" by Paritosh Sen and "Some British and European Painters in India (1760-1850)" by R P Gupta
- THE EARLY MASTERS - Rare Paintings of the Bengal Renaissance
New York: Bose Pacia Gallery
pp. 28
covers ABANINDRANATH TAGORE, MANISHI DEY, JAMINI ROY, RABINDRANATH TAGORE
softcover
- ART OF SUNIL MADHAV SEN
Calcutta: Oxford Book & Stationery Co.
1971
pp. 23 with 16 full-page monochrome plates
Has a 3-page essay on Sen by A. P. Das Gupta
Card covers
Size: 11 x 11 inches
- SHAPES & FORMS - Essays on life and works of Sunil Madhav Sen, Nirode Majumdar, Prakash Karmakar, Dhiraj Choudhury and Sunil Das
By ArupK. Datta
Calcutta: Transition Books
1973
pp. 67
Cloth-bound hardback with dustjacket
Size: 11 x 9.5 inches
- EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF ASIT KUMAR HALDAR
Organised as part of birth centenary year celebrations
New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi
pp. 24 with colour and b&w plates, many in colour
Card covers
Size: 9 x 9 inches
- HALDAR
8-page essay by Mukti Mittra plus plates
New Delhi: Lalitd Kala Akademi/ 1961
- KSHITINDRANATH MAJUMDAR
pp. 8 text with essays by Binode Behari Mukherjee and Jaya Appasamy
Plus plates
New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi / 1967
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