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ROERICH, NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH. 1874-1947.:Himalaya, a Monograph. New York: Brentano\’s, 1926.
Folio. 24 mounted color plates, 78 mounted halftones, including portrait of Roerich by his son Sviatoslav Roerich. Publisher\’s tan cloth stamped in gilt. Upper joint cracked through, sunned, corners bumped, hinges reinforced, toning.
LIMITED EDITION, number 165 of 500 copies. Celebrated Russian painter, writer, archeologist, philosopher and mystic Roerich settled with his family in the Kullu Valley in India in 1929. The mansion on the estate became the home to the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute that the Roerichs founded in 1928. This opulent volume pulls together excerpts from a diary kept during his often treacherous travels through the Himalayas, and reproductions of many of his best known works including his \”Banners of the East\” series of nineteen paintings devoted to the world\’s greatest religious teachers including Buddha, Confucius, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed. Many of these pictures are now in the Roerich Museum in New York City.
