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ART IN WESTERN INDIA: BOOKS AND JOURNALS


Estimate: Rs 50,000-Rs 60,000 ( $760-$910 )


- MODERN ART IN WESTERN INDIA
Edited by Kanaiyalal Vakil
Bombay: New Book Company
1934
pp. 53 + plates
Printed wrappers string-tied
Size: 11 x 9 inches
Issued to mark the exhibition of modern Indian art at New Burlington Galleries in London in December 1934

- THE BOMBAY REVIVAL OF INDIAN ART
A descriptive account of the Indian Room constructed and decorated by the Staff and Students of the School of Art. With notes on Indian architecture, pottery, arts and crafts,and the Bombay Art Society, by well known experts
By W. E. Gladstone Solomon
BOMBAY: published by the author
No date [c. 1920]
pp. 155 + plates
A propagandist book to promote the Bombay School of Art at the British Empire ExhibitionLondon in 1924. The Indian Room was created in Bombay and shipped to London for the exhibition. See p. 192 of Partha Mitter 'The Triumph of Modernism' (Oxford, 2007)

- ANTONIO XAVIER TRINDADE - An Indian Painter from Portuguese Goa
Limited Edition of 1,000 copies issued in the US in 1996
VERY RARE
pp. 87 with 33 of Trindade's works illustrated in colour
Essays on origin and early history of Bombay School of Painting, biography of Trindade, catalogue, bibliography and an essay on Angela Trindade, the artist's daughter who was also a painter of Indian scenes.
These are:
1. THE ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF BOMBAY SCHOOL OF PAINTING by Bradley L. Tindall
2. ANTONIO XAVIER TRINDADE: A BIOGRAPHY by MarcellaSirhandi
3. ANGELA TRINDADE, INDIAN ARTIST by William U. Eiland
4. ANTONIO XAVIER TRINDADE: A REMEMBRANCE by Nans Ghumman
Trindade was a colleague of M V Dhurandhar
Fine softcover
Size: 11 x 8.5 inches

- THE BOMBAY ART SOCIETY PICTURES
THE 47th ANNUAL EXHIBITION [1936]
pp. 48

- THE BOMBAY ART SOCIETY
GOLDEN JUBILEE EXHIBITION 1939
pp. 88

- THE BOMBAY ART SOCIETY
51ST ANNUAL EXHIBITION 1942
PP. 52 + 31

- THE BOMBAY ART SOCIETY
55TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION 1946
PP. 20 + 42

- THE BOMBAY ART SOCIETY
67th ANNUAL EXHIBITION 1957-1958
PP. 24 + 24

- THE BOMBAY ART SOCIETY
ANNUAL DAY 1960
No pagination
7 tipped-in colour plates

- ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SIRJ.J. SCHOOL OF ART, Bombay for the year 1932-33
BOMBAY: Printed at the Government Central Press
1934
pp. 79 + plates
Fragile and soiled
Ex-library

- ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SIR J.J. SCHOOL OF ART, Bombay for the year 1940-41
BOMBAY: Printed at the Government Central Press
1942
pp. 161 + plates
Fragile and soiled. Lacks back cover.

This lot will be sold in "as is" condition.
There may be some minor tears/creases scratches, or holes commensurate with age that may not be visible in the images.

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