The titles in this lot are listed below. Details about each book follow further down.
1. 8 CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS FROM INDIA...INTERACTION OF EAST AND WEST [1963 New York catalogue]
2. CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ARTISTS By Geeta Kapur
3. ARTISTES INDIENS EN FRANCE
4. ROOPANKAR: A Collection of Contemporary Art [1996 Moscow catalogue]
5. ART TODAY / Vol No. 3, March 1982 [Mag edited by Jogen Chowdhury]
6. CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART: GLENBARRA ART MUSEUM COLLECTION
7. INDIA MYTH AND REALITY: Aspects of Modern Indian Art
8. CONTEMPORARY ART: SYNTHESES AND POLARITIES
9. TRYST WITH DESTINY: ART FROM MODERN INDIA 1947-1997
10. CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART [1982 Festival of India London catalogue]
11. ASHTA NAYAK: EIGHT PIONEERS OF INDIAN ART
12. HUNGRY GOD: INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
13 PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM INDIA
14. EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS 1981 [Lalit Kala Akademi]
15. INDIAN PAINTING TO-DAY by Francis Watson
16. INDIAN DRAWING TODAY 1987
17. INDIAN PRINT MAKING TODAY 1985
18. Bios and comments in French about 8 Indian artists

a)
8 CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS FROM INDIA...INTERACTION OF EAST AND WEST
1963 catalogue of exhibition held by the India-America League, New York
pp. 26
Stapled softcover / 7 x 7 inches
Illustrated catalogue. Includes Bendre, Gaitonde, Husain, Krishen Khanna, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee, Raza, Samant.
EXTREMELY RARE

b)
CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ARTISTS
By Geeta Kapur
M.F. Husain, Bhupen Khakhar, Akbar Padamsee, F. N. Souza, Ram Kumar, J. Swaminathan
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House
pp.xxii, 225 with bibliography and index + 72 plates
1978
Black cloth binding, no dustjacket
Size: 9 x 5.5 inches
A seminal work by India's leading art critic, now quite scarce. All essays written after extensive conversations with artists.
CONDITION: Ex-Library copy but title-page clean. No accession numbers. Only 1 stamp on front flyleaf and another on top edge. A good copy of this scarce book but without dustjacket.

c)
ARTISTES INDIENS EN FRANCE
Rich exhibition catalogue on Indian artists who lived in France, held in Paris October-November 1985
Text entirely in French
Covers Amrita Sher-Gil, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee, Raza, Jogen Chowdhury, Rajendra Dhawan, Nalini Malani, Nasreen Mohamedi, Krishna Reddy, Inderjeet Sahdev
pp. 60
Card covers
Size: 12 x 8.5 inches

d)
ROOPANKAR: A Collection of Contemporary Art .br.Catalogue issued for an Indian Art Festival in Moscow in 1996
Text in Hindi and Russian only
Organised by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, together with Cultural Dept, Ministry of Human Resources, Govt of India
Introduction by Manjit Bawa, essay by Prayag Shukla
pp. 50 with 19 colour plates, biographical details and list of works on show
18 leadidng Indian artists are represented.
Softcover/ 11 x 11 inches

e)
ART TODAY / Vol No. 3, March 1982
A magazine published in Calcutta and edited by Jogen Chowdhury and Suvaprasanna
pp. 24 including covers
Brief essays by 21 artists and critics including F N Souza, Krishen Khanna, Bhupen Khakhar, Manjit Bawa, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Arpana Kaur, J Sultan Ali, C. P Ramachandran, Jogen Chowdhury
Stapled /11 x 9 inches
RARE

f)
CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART: GLENBARRA ART MUSEUM COLLECTION
Published by Glenbarra Art Museum, Jihoji Himeji, Japan
1993
Text in English and Japanese
Includes 2-page essay "My Credo in Art" by F N Souza, essay on 1890 by J Swaminathan, and essays by Ved Nayar and others.
pp. 180
A massive and lavish all-colour publication
Hardback with dustjacket
Size 11.5 x 10.5 inches
Fine

g)
INDIA MYTH AND REALITY: Aspects of Modern Indian Art
Catalogue of exhibition held at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, in 1982
Introduction by David Elliott, Victor Musgrave, E. Alkazi
pp. 80 and 4-page list of exhibits loosely inserted
Covers 20 artists including Husain, Souza, Gujral, Raza, Padamsee, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, Khanna, Kaleka, Broota, Anish Kapoor, Ramachandran.
Includes essays:
The Contemporary Situation in India Art by K. G. Subramanyan
An Engagement with Reality by Deepak Ananth.br.Art and Redemption - Ramachandran's Quest by Krishna Chaitanya
Nalini Malani by Geeta Kapur
Five Poems by Gieve Patel
Four Poems by M. F. Husain
Nirvana of a Maggot by F. N. Souza
Softcover / 8 x 8 inches

h)
CONTEMPORARY ART: SYNTHESES AND POLARITIES
Edited by Ursula Bickelmann and Nissim Ezekiel
Bombay: Marg Publications
1987
Record of a seminar titled EAST-WEST VISUAL ARTS ENCOUNTER, held in Bombay in February 1985 in which many Indian and western artists took part.
Each artist's transcript and statement is published together with a portrait and a few representative works.
Among the Indian artists represented are SOUZA, RAZA, BIKASH BHATTACHARJEE, G.R. SANTOSH, MANJIT BAWA, JERAM PATEL, PILLOO POCHKHANAWALA, and BALAN NAMBIAR.
pp. 110
Softcover / 13 x 9.5 inches

i)
TRYST WITH DESTINY: ART FROM MODERN INDIA 1947-1997
Catalogue of exhibition held at Singapore Art Museum in 1997
With essays by K. G. Subramanyan, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Siva Kumar, Karen Lim
pp. 215
Stiff cards
Size 10.5 x 10 inches

j)
CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART
An exhibition of the Festival of India, 1982, at the Royal academy of Arts, London
pp. 100
7-page introduction by Geeta Kapur
44 artists covered. Each given 2-page space with portrait, 1 or 2 illus and bio.
Card covers
Size 9.5 x 8.5 inches

k)
ASHTA NAYAK: EIGHT PIONEERS OF INDIAN ART
37-page catalogue of exhibition held in 2005 at Gallery Artsindia, New York
Covers Husain, Souza, Raza, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, Padamsee, Gaitonde, Swaminathan
Softcover / 10.5 x 8 inches

l)
HUNGRY GOD: INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
Catalogue of exhibition held at Arario Beijing in 2006
pp. 255 / Text in English and Chinese
Covers 12 artists including Atul Dodiya, Bharti Kher, Subodh Gupta, Ranbir Kaleka, Jitish Kallat, Nalini Malani and Natraj Sharma
Massive hardback
13 x 9.5 inches

m)
PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM INDIA
1998 catalogue of exhibition held at the Japan Foundation Forum
Text in English and Japanese
Essays by Geeta Kapur, Ranjit Hoskote and Tatehata Akira
pp. 114
Card covers/ 12 x 8 inches
CONDITION: Cover has some ballpoint notations.

n)
EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS 1981
New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi
2-page Introduction by S. A. Krishnan
12 full-page b&w plates on glazed paper
3-page list of 62 works
Stapled softcover
Size 9.5 x 7 inches

o)
INDIAN PAINTING TO-DAY by Francis Watson
10-page essay in complete copy of THE STUDIO for June 1948
With 4 illustrations in colour [2 by Amrita Sher-Gil and 1 each by Nandalal Bose and Rahman Chughtai] + 8 illustrations in b&w.br.Size 10 x 7.5 inches

p)
INDIAN DRAWING TODAY 1987
Bombay: Jehangir Art Gallery
pp. 139
Includes 32 artists including Husain, Padamsee, Hebbar, Krishen Khanna, Ram Kumar, Bendre, Gaitonde, Bikash Bhattacharjee
Mint cloth hardback with mint dustjacket
Size 11 x 9 inches

q)
INDIAN PRINT MAKING TODAY 1985
Bombay: Jehangir Art Gallery
pp. 115
Includes 24 contemporary artists and 10 artists and studios of the past.
Covers Husain, Shanti Dave, Jyoti Bhatt, Laxma Goud, Nandalal Bose, Mukul Dey, Raja Ravi Varma, Chughtai, Chitta Prasad, Calcutta Art Studio, Chorbagan art Studio
Mint cloth hardback with mint dustjacket
Size 9 x 9 inches

r)
16 loose cyclostyled sheets stapled together carrying bios and comments in French about 8 Indian artists - Avinash Chandra, Krishen Khanna, Kaiko Moti, Akbar Padamsee, Laxman Pai, S H Raza, Krishna Reddy and Jamini roy.
c. 1962
size 8.5 x 5.5 inches