Osian's Auction Catalogue Forty Masterpieces | March 2003

MAHADEV VISVANATH DHURANDHAR [1867-1944/ b. Kolhapur, Maharashtra] Provenance From a Private Collection, Jaipur Omar Khayyam Series All Signed in English, I.r., Dated in English, 1.1. Pen & black ink on paper, 1943 Each 26.0 x 18.6 ern [10.2 x 7.3 in] All drawings are inscribed with poetry on verso Rs. 600,000 - 700,000 $ 12,500 - 14,600 £ 7,500 - 8,800 € 11,500 - 13,500 [Set of 17] 9 The Rubniyat of Omar Khayyam: with illustrations by AbanindranathTagore. (Translated by Edward Fitzgerald; Published by Leopold Hill, London) HT.ND/ 28.1 1. 1999 Lot 140 Asir Kumar Hald ar Omar Khayyam Series Pen & ink on paper, early 1940s Each 26.5 x 20.5 cm ASP: Rs. 766,500 [Set of 12J “ Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the bough , a flask of wine, a book of Verse and Thou beside me singing in the wilderness and wilderness is paradise now. “Awake! For morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan’s turret in a noose of Light.”