Significant Indian Paintings Significant Indian Paintings A. R. CHUGHTAI (1897 - 1975)
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a. CHUGHTAI’S PAINTINGS
Thirty-nine plates in all - Thirty-four plates in colour and two pencil drawings, three monochromes
Foreword by Dr. James H. Cousins / Introduction and critical annotations by Mrs. Razia Siraj-ud-Din
Printed on cover: Lahore (India), Jahangir Book Club, Chabuk Sawaran
Dimension: 12 x 10 inches
No date but c.1940 and First Edition thus Pp 24 + 39 tipped-in plates with tissue guards carrying the title Paper-covered boards with title-ticket pasted on cover and with the remnants of a fragile dust jacket, which is rarely to be found in the case of the first edition.
Condition: Good. Spine and front hinge a little tender
b. CHUGHTAI’S INDIAN PAINTINGS
Thirty-five plates in all – Twenty-seven in colours and the rest in monochromes
Foreword by Dr. Tara Chand / Introduction and notes by Principal S. Kashmira Singh
Printed: New Delhi, Dhoomi Mal Dharam Das, 1951
Pp 21 + 35 full-page tipped plates with tissue guards carrying extensive commentaries
Dimension: 15.5 x 12 inches
In addition there are 8 small b&w tipped-in plates based on Chughtai’s line drawings in the Introduction
The text also has one-page note by Chughtai and one-page note by the Publisher Bound in black rexine with a b&w line drawing and the title-ticket pasted on cover and with damaged dust jacket which is rarely to be found.
Condition: Very good.