The titles in this lot are listed below. Details about each book follow further down.
1. MODERN ART IN INDIA By Ajit Mookerjee
2. INDIA AND MODERN ART By W. G. Archer
3. INDIA AND MODERN ART By Bishnu Dey
4. SIX INDIAN PAINTERS [Geeta Kapur]
5. RABINDRANATH TAGORE, AMRITA SHER-GIL, JAMINI ROY
a)
MODERN ART IN INDIA
By Ajit Mookerjee
Calcutta: Oxford Book & Stationery Co.
1956
pp. 137 with 48 plates, mostly in colour
A study of Rabindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, M. F. Husain, Sunil Madhav Sen, M. B. Samant and Sudha Mookerjee with reproductions of hand-written statements by each artist [except Tagore].
Cloth hardcover / 11 x 9 inches
A fine copy. Spine a bit faded. Part of front cover shows a vertical waterstain.
b)
INDIA AND MODERN ART
By W. G. Archer
Author's presentation copy
London: George Allen & Unwin
1959
pp. 144 with notes, sources and index + 61 illustrations on plates printed on glazed paper.
Has chapters on George Keyt, Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore and E. B. Havell with a chapter on art and the British at the end of the 19th century in India.
Yellow cloth / no dustjacket
Size 10 x 7.5 inches
c)
INDIA AND MODERN ART
By Bishnu Dey
24-page pamphlet, reprinted from Visvabharati Quarterly, Santiniketan
Summer 1959
Ex-library [no accession numbers]
A critique of W. G. Archer's above book, challenging his theories.
Size 10 x 6.5 inches
d)
SIX INDIAN PAINTERS
Introduction by Geeta Kapur
46-page catalogue of Tate Gallery, London, exhibition held in 1982
Rabindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, M. F. Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, Bhupen Khakhar.br.Softcover / 8 x 8 inches
e)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE, AMRITA SHER-GIL, JAMINI ROY
September 2004 catalogue of exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
pp. 79
Essays by Ella Datta and Vidya Shivdas, colour plates, chronology
Stiff cards
Size 10.5 x 9 inches
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