Lot 139
Gangoly, Ordhendra Coomar
Khsitindra Nath Mazumdar
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
[Series-title at head:] Modern Indian Artists Volume One. Calcutta: H. Mukhurji & Co., 1923. First edition, number 2 of 300 copies, 8vo, original quarter japon, front board with titles in embossed gilt and onlaid photographic portrait of the artist, 26 plates (photogravures and colour plates), captioned tissue-guards, title-page in first state (with ‘Kshitindra’ misspelt ‘Khsitindra’, corrected in later copies), lacking spine-label, faint damp-stain to front cover, plate 1 (frontispiece) with repaired tear
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
Gangoly was the de facto spokesman of the new Bengal School of Indian painting, led by Abindranath Tagore and based primarily at the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Only one further volume in the series was published: a monograph on Asif Haldar.