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Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore: Foreign
Comments is a recent inclusion to the Mukul
Dey Archives; it is an important document, donated by artist
Shantanu
Ukil, who, in turn, had received this document from the noted
scholar and theoretician of Indian art, Stella Kramrisch
during
early 1950s.
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Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore
Foreign Comments
As a primary source to understand Rabindranath
Tagore’s output as a creative visual artist and the evaluation
of his art by western media, this document is invaluable.
After all, Mukul Dey apart, it was Europe first who had accepted
Rabindranath Tagore’s visual art in a chronological time
frame. Needless to say, much before the “educated” Indians
took any cognizance of Tagore’s merit as a visual artist,
it was primarily the thinking people of France and Germany who
had extended their critical appreciation to his art in 1930.
Tagore on his part was no less pragmatic to perceive the worth
of Europe as well…
A detailed description of the document is given below:
1. Physical Description:
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Printed document containing 20 pages recto-verso + cover
page and rear cover. |
2. Dimension:
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25.4 cm. High x 19 cm. Wide. |
3. Title:
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Paintings / by / Rabindranath Tagore / Foreign Comments |
| 4. Publisher:
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Printed and published by N. Mukherjee, B.A., at the Art Press,
81, Central Avenue, Calcutta. |
The above-mentioned booklet contains the following sections.
Spelling is kept intact as per the original. Page numbers are
put in brackets:
- Tagore’s Drawings by Joseph Southall, Birmingham. (pp.
1).
- Clipping from BIRMINGHAM MAIL – Review by Kaines-Smith.
(pp. 2-3).
- “My Pictures are Verses” / RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S
EXHIBITION AT CHARLOTENBURG / Berlingske Tidende / (Denmark)
/ August 9th. 1930. (pp.3-4).
- CUTTINGS FROM GERMAN PAPERS: MUENCHENER TELEGRAM-ZEITUNG,
MUENCHEN (23-7-30); HAMBURGER FREMDENBLATT (29-7-30); HAMBURGE
FREMDENBLATT
(26-7-30); VOSSICHE ZEITUNG, BERLIN (16-7-30) / Rabindranath
Tagore as a Painter – Exhibition in the Galerie Moeller; BERLINER BOERSENZEITUNG, BERLIN / Rabindranath
Tagore’s
Paintings and Drawings; MANNHEIMER TAGEBLATT (22-7-30); MUENCHENER
TELEGRAM-ZEITUNG,
MUENCHEN; DRESDENER ANZEIGER, DRESDEN; BERLINER MORGENZEITUNG
(24-7-30); BERLINER TAGEBLATT (16-7-30); VORWAERTS, BERLIN (21-7-30);
DRESDENER
ANZEIGER, DRESDEN (19-7-30); HANNOVERSCHER KURIER (19-7-30);
VOSSISCHE ZEITUNG, BERLIN (17-7-30) / Rabindranath Tagore
Takes to Painting
/ Exhibition at the Moeller Gallery; NATIONALTIDENDE (9-8-30).
(pp. 4-12).
- Tagore’s Drawings and the National Galerie,
Berlin (This
section of the document contains the full text of two letters.
One from L. Thormachten to Herr Moeller of Moeller Gallery, dated
14 August, 1930, and the other from Rabindranath Tagore to Geheimrat
Justi, dated 16 August, 1930. - Ed.). (pp. 12-13)
- (A very detailed and translated review of the first ever exhibition
of Rabindranath Tagore at Galerie Pigalle, Paris. Undated. – Ed.).
(pp. 13-17).
- Preface to the catalogue for the exhibition at Galerie Pigalle,
Paris by Comtesse de Noailles. (pp. 17-18).
- Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s paintings by Ananda
K. Coomaraswamy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (pp. 18-20).
- Tagore the Artist by Stella Kramrisch. (pp. 20).
Note: For a reasonably detailed account of artist Mukul Dey’s
role in promoting Rabindranath Tagore’s art in general, and
sponsoring Tagore’s first Indian solo exhibition in 1932,
the visitors might consult our web page
www.chitralekha.org/rabindranath.htm
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