Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore. Volumes 1-4

摘要

On the birth centenary of Rabindranath Tagore in 1961, the Indian government—at the personal initiative of its prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who had known and revered Tagore in the 1930s— commissioned a portfolio of collotype reproductions of some of Tagore's more than 2,000 paintings and drawings. They were printed by the renowned Ganymed Press in London. So fine was the quality that when the collotype reproductions were exhibited at the Commonwealth Institute in London, some visitors took them for the original works. In India, however, there was little awareness of Tagore's painting at this time, and even less appreciation, except among a small group of cognoscenti, most of whom were art critics or painters, such as Prithwish Neogy and K. G. Subramanyan.