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Chughtai`s Indian Paintings [Signed by Chughtai] - Abdur Rahman Chughtai and S Kashmira Singh - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Chughtai`s Indian Paintings [Signed by Chughtai]

Foreword by Dr Tara Chand/ Introduction and notes by Principal S Kashmira Singh, Chughtai's Indian Paintings, New Delhi: Dhoomi Mal Dharam Das, 1951

pp. 21; 35 full-page tipped plates, twenty-seven in colours with tissue guards carrying extensive commentaries; 8 small black and white tipped-in plates based on Chughtai's line drawings in the introduction. The text also has a one-page note by Chughtai and a one-page note by the publisher; contemporary black textured faux-leather boards; upper cover with a mounted monochrome halftone portrait of a woman in profile (likely after Chughtai’s design) and a typographic label printed in bold black capitals on a cream background: CHUGHTAI’S INDIAN PAINTINGS affixed at the lower right corner. Plain cream endpapers.
15.5 x 12 x 0.9 in (39.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm)

Presentation Copy – Signed by the Artist. Inscribed by the artist in blue ink on the front free endpaper: “To / Claire and George / Abdur Rahman Chughtai/ 28.6.64”

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