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DOROTHY NEWSOME (CIRCA 1900-1980). [GHUTIARI SHARIF.] Circa 1935. 39¾x24½ inches, 101x62¼ cm. The Calcutta Posters, Calcutta.
Estimate:
$1,000 - $1,500
Sold
$975
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Description
DOROTHY NEWSOME (CIRCA 1900-1980) [GHUTIARI SHARIF.] Circa 1935.
39¾x24½ inches, 101x62¼ cm. The Calcutta Posters, Calcutta.
Condition B: side margins trimmed off; overpainted top and bottom margins; repaired tears, creases, abrasions and overpainting in margins, text and image.
Newsome designed many posters advertising travel to India, illustrating combinations of local scenes with famous landmarks and local people. Here, for a small West Bengali town, she depicts one of the town's major structures, the Mazar of Pir Ghazi Mubarak Ali Sahab. It is a shrine in honor of a holy man whose intense meditation brought an end to a severe drought in the 17th century. This is the Bengali version.