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
Only book on SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA [1906-1960]
Softcover with a colour plate tipped-in on cover
HALDAR
8-page essay by Miss Mukti Mittra
With 31 plates
New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi/ 1961
Size 7 x 5 inches
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
SUSHIL SARKAR - PAINTINGS
Introduction by M. S. Randhawa
Delhi: Dhoomi Mal Jugal Kishore
June 1960 [Third Impression of 1947 publication]
pp. 7 + 16 tipped-in colourplates
Size: 15.5 x 11 inches
Hardback with dustjacket covered with glassine and with a large colour plate pasted on cover.
Condition: Very good
SIX SEASONS by Barada Ukil
Introduction by Sardar K. M. Panikkar
Inscription in verse by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Presentation inscription by Barada Ukil on title-page
New Delhi: Dhoomi Mal Dharam Das
1951
pp. 23 with 6 colour plates and a portrait of Ukil, all 'framed' within folded paper. Text printed within floralborder.
CONDITION: Good. Rebound in half-leather with buckram covers and gilt dentelles.
Size: 13 x 10 inches
DHARMANARAYAN DASGUPTA 1939-1997
Representing the Bengali Modern
By Sandip Sarkar and Tapati Guha-Thakurta
CALCUTTA:Galerie 88/ 2000
pp. 62 + 95 illustrations including some photos of the artist
Softcover
Size: 10.7 x 8.5 inches
PREMOJA - 12 coloured plates
Portfolio issued by Dhoomi Mal Jugal Kishore, New Delhi, on 29 December 1962 [2nd Edition]
List of plates followed by 12 coloured tipped-in plates contained in a portfolio with its cover carrying a tipped-in plate.
Premoja Choudhury was a minor Delhi artist
Size 15 x 11 inches
DER REKRUT by Baren Basu
Illustrationsby CHITTAPRASAD
A novel titled 'The Recruit', about the Japanese invasion of North-East India, translated into German and illustrated by Bengal's Leftist artist CHITTAPRASAD.
20 chapter heads by CHITTAPRASAD
TEXT IN GERMAN
Published in Berlinin 1957
Very fine cloth hardback with an illustration by Chittaprasad on cover and with dustjacket.
pp. 314
8.5 x 6 inches
SHAPES & FORMS - Essays on life and works of Sunil Madhav Sen, Nirode Majumdar, Prakash Karmakar, DhirajChoudhury and Sunil Das
By Arup K. Datta
Calcutta: Transition Books
1973
pp. 67
Cloth-bound hardback with dustjacket
Size: 11 x 9.5 inches
ART OF BENGAL 1850-1950
Pp. 112
CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN ART OF BENGAL - II
Pp.77
CONTEMPORARY ART OF BENGAL - III
Pp. 32
3-volume set of softcover catalogues issued for an exhibition organised by Calcutta Metropolitan Festival of Art to celebrate the 50th year of India's independence
December 1997
Size: 11 x9 inches
BENGALL
Catalogue of exhibition at Alliance Francaise New Delhi, July-August 2007
95 colour illustrations
pp. 44
An assessment of Bengal art since the 19th century with extensive notes on each work
Card covers
Size11 x 8.5 inches
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