The titles in this lot are listed below. Details about each book follow further down.
1. ART IN PAKISTAN: EARLY YEARS
2. BASHIR MIRZA: ACRYLIC SERIES 1989-1994
3. PAKISTAN ANOTHER VISION: FIFTY YEARS OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE FROM PAKISTAN.br.4. CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF THE ART OF PAKISTAN
5. PLAYING WITH A LOADED GUN: CONTEMPORARY ART IN PAKISTAN
6. ZAHOOR UL AKHLAQ
7. ZAINUL ABEDIN'S FAMINE SKETCHES -1943
8. CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN PAKISTAN [Winter 1961 issue of a quarterly]
9. WORD INTO ART: Artist of the Modern Middle East
10. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SAUDI ART: Al-Mansouria Collection
a)
ART IN PAKISTAN: EARLY YEARS
By Jalaluddin Ahmed
LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. / 1972
With 72 plates, each in colour and tipped-in
Originally issued as an unbound portfolio, this is a library rebind in full cloth
Size 11.5 x 11 inches
Chughtai, Sadequain, Fyzee Rahamin, Allah Bukhsh, Zainul Abedin, Zubeida Agha, Shakir Ali and many more.
Ex-Library copy but title-page is clean
b)
BASHIR MIRZA: ACRYLIC SERIES 1989-1994
Introduction by Victor Anant
Edited by Marjorie Husain
c. 1995
KARACHI: Continental Publishers
pp. 104 with about 60 colour images of works by Mirza and a poem by him
Hardcover with dusjacket
Bashir's Mirza's visiting card while he was cultural attache in Australia is taped to endpaper with the words "With compliments" written in hand.
Size 10 x 9 inches
c)
PAKISTAN ANOTHER VISION: FIFTY YEARS OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE FROM PAKISTAN
Edited by Timothy Wilcox
Catalogue of exhibition in the UK in 2000
pp. 80
softcover / 11 x 9 inches
d)
CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF THE ART OF PAKISTAN
Catalogue of exhibition held at Gallerie Sadequain in Karachi in 2001
Also called the Takhti Exhibition since all artists painted on takhtis or wooden writing plaques for the show.
pp. 74
Softcover / 10 x 8 inches
e)
PLAYING WITH A LOADED GUN: CONTEMPORARY ART IN PAKISTAN
Catalogue of exhibition held in Germany in 2004
Text in English and German
11 artists exhibited
pp. 32
Stapled softcover / 9.5 x 7.5 inches
f)
ZAHOOR UL AKHLAQ
By Roger Connah
Published in Canada / 2000
pp. 109 with 75 pages of full-page plates
Hardback
Size 7.5 x 5.5 inches
g)
ZAINUL ABEDIN'S FAMINE SKETCHES -1943
Published by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
c. 1990
Foldover portfolio with 16 sketches printed on loose sheets.
Inner flap and back cover carry details about Zainul Abedin and an appreciation by Nazrul Islam. Text in English and Bengali.
Size 12.5 x 9.5 inches
h)
CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN PAKISTAN
Winter 1961 issue of the quarterly edited by Jalal Uddin Ahmed
Has 3 essays on Pakistani art:
FOUR ARTISTS WORKING IN LONDON by G M Butcher
[Iqbal Geoffrey, Ahmed Parvez, Kamil Khan, Ali Imam]
RUMI ISLAM - A WOMAN PAINTER [Dacca artist/ 6 illustrations and a portrait]
CONTEMPORARY PAINTING IN EAST PAKISTAN by B K Jahangir
[covers 10 artists]
Size 10.5 x 9 inches
i)
WORD INTO ART: Artist of the Modern Middle East
Catalogue of exhibition held in Dubai in 2008 and curated by Venetia Porter and Saeb Eigner
pp. 160
Fine hardback with fine dustjacket
Size 11 x 9 inches
j)
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SAUDI ART: Al-Mansouria Collection
Catalogue of exhibition held in Bahrain in 2014
Text in English and Arabic
Large hardcover
11 x 11 inches
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