The titles in this lot are listed below. Details about each book follow further down.
1. EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS PAINTINGS ENGRAVINGS POTTERY AND LEATHERWORK BY SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE
2. SOUVENIR CATALOGUE OMAGGIO A RABINDRANATH TAGORE
3. RABINDRANATH TAGORE [Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo]
4. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS / RABINDRANATH - ABANINDRANATH - GAGANENDRANATH AND JYOTIRINDRANATH
5. RABINDRANATH TAGORE - PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
6. RABINDRANATH TAGORE - AQUARELLE, GOUACHEN, FEDERZEICHNUNGEN
7. RABINDRANATH TAGORE [Centenary Tribute]
8. TAGORE AN ARTIST
9. RABINDRANATH TAGORE 1861-1941 [Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris]
10. AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL PAINTINGS AND A MANUSCRIPT OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE
11. THE LAST HARVEST - AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE
12. PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE
13. INDIAN MUSIC AND RABINDRANATH TAGORE
a)
EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS PAINTINGS ENGRAVINGS POTTERY AND LEATHERWORK BY SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Catalogue of exhibition held at Government School of Art, Calcutta, in February 1931
pp. 34 + 21 plates
6-page foreword by Mukul Dey
6-page price list of 265 exhibits by Tagore [Rs 50 to Rs 1,250] and 17 by his son Rathindranath Tagore and daughter-in-law Pratima Devi at the end.
Includes the only work of pottery created by Tagore which is also illustrated.
RARE
String-tied, brown-card cover with a plate pasted on cover.
Size 11 x 9 inches
Condition: Covers heavily soiled, front corner torn, another tear without loss, red ink stain on cover, evidence of water-damage to plates but nothing serious. Everything complete and illustrations inside undamaged.
WITH
Flyleaf publicising portofolio titled TWENTY-FIVE LINOCUTS by Rani Dey [Mukul Dey's sister] loosely inserted. The portfolio was released by Tagore on the occasion of this exhibition.
b)
SOUVENIR CATALOGUE OMAGGIO A RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Published by Rome-New York Art Foundation in 1959
Text in English and Italian
pp. 95 with illustrations
Stapled Softcover/ size: 10 x 7 inches
c)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Catalogue of exhibition held at Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo in 1988
pp. 139 with 120 works by Tagore reproduced in colour
Text in Japanese with captions in English
Wrappers /11 x 9 inches
With a lovely ticket to the exhibition loosely inserted
d)
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS / RABINDRANATH - ABANINDRANATH - GAGANENDRANATH AND JYOTIRINDRANATH
Rare catalogue of exhibition held at Jehangir Art Gallery Bombay, from December 1960 to January 1961
Organised by Tagore Centenary Celebrations Committee under the auspices of Bombay Durga Bari Samiti in cooperation with West Bengal Government and Rabindra-Bharati, Calcutta
pp. 16 stapled catalogue printed in sepia ink
Gives list of plates of each artist and has a 5-page essay on Gaganendranath Tagore by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
RARE
Size: 10 x 7 inches
e)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE - PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
Press kit of exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 1986
Printed folder with 8 illustrations + 2 photographs, 2 postcards, 2 photocopies of paintings and a 3-page Pressnote loosely inserted
Folder 11.5 x 8 inches
f)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE - AQUARELLE, GOUACHEN, FEDERZEICHNUNGEN
1981 catalogue of Nationalgalerie, Berlin
pp. 24 with 6 colour plates and a 5-page essay
Catalogue of 85 works
Text in German
Stapled softcover / 8 x 7.5 inches
g)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
A centenary tribute delivered at University College, Cork, in May, 1961
By Rachel Burrows
Cork University Press
1962
pp. 32
Stapled softcover / 8.5 x 5.5 inches
h)
TAGORE AN ARTIST
By Carol Cuthbertson
Published by Visva-Bharati, Calcutta
1968
pp. 39 + colour frontispiece of Tagore portrait
Softcover/ 8.5 x 5.5 inches
i)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE 1861-1941
1961 catalogue of exhibition held at Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
TEXT IN FRENCH
pp. 152 with 8 plates and 2 photos on cover
Includes details about 510 exhibits
Softcover / 8 x 6 inches
j)
AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL PAINTINGS AND A MANUSCRIPT OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Organised by Lalit Kala Akademi & Department of Culture
Courtesy: Visva Bharati, Santiniketan
pp. 24 including cove rwith 13 drawings and reproductions of manuscript notes by Tagore and an essay by Sankho Chaudhari
No date [c. 1990s]
Stiff cards / 9 x 7 inches
k)
THE LAST HARVEST - AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Catalogue of an exhibition organized by Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, in Germany, the USA, South Korea, the Netherlands and the UK in 2011
pp. 12 with photographs and illustrations
Stiff cards/ 12 x 8.5 inches
l)
PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Six Masterpieces from the Rabindra-Bhabana
Santiniketan: Visva-Bharati
No date [c.1990]
6 large loose plates in an envelope with Rabindranath Tagore's essay 'My Pictures' on the back
Size 20 x 14.5 inches
Envelope with tears
m)
INDIAN MUSIC AND RABINDRANATH TAGORE
By Arnold A. Bake
A Lecture Delivered Before the India Society
London: The India Society
No date [c. 1930]
pp. 22
Stapled pamphlet / 9.5 x 6.5 inches
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