A large group of sixty-three works on paper, depicting Indian and some European sitters, by Doris Gerrard (British, d. 1995), wife of Charles Gerrard, Principal of the Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay India, probably Bombay, circa 1930-45 pencil on paper, several signed, one watercolour, fifty depicting women, thirteen depicting men, one female sitter inscribed Mangi; together with a copy of Drawings by Doris Gerrard, no date [but 1940s], deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies, 29 monochrome plates, foreword by K. Khandalava, photographic frontispiece portrait of Gerrard, folio, cloth covers the largest 76 x 56 cm.; the smallest 48 x 32 cm. (64) Footnotes: Doris Gerrard studied at Plymouth College of Art in the 1920s. She was married to Charles Gerrard, a painter and sometime principal of the J. J. School of Art in Bombay. Beverley Nichols described her as 'a sculptress of genius, completely wasted in India'. There was a sale of material from her studio in the 1990s, the proceeds of which endowed a scholarship in her name at Plymouth. Charles Gerrard was Director of the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay from 1936 to 1946, introducing a keen personal observation of 1930s modernist developments in British and European painting, sculpture, graphic design and architecture. He was assisted in this by exiles from the Nazi regime such as Walter Langhammer and Rudi van Leyden, who with Gerrard directed at the School, invigorated the Bombay Art Society and encouraged modernist and art deco European design amongst local architectural practices and in commercial printing. See Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art Online Sale, 18th-26th May 2023, lot 465, for a group of material relating to Charles Gerrard and Doris Gerrard. Some of the sitters appear in the book included in this lot, Drawings by Doris Gerrard, notably two striking women referred to as 'Amina' (who appears to be the same figure in at least two of the drawings in the present group) and 'Tara', and at least one of the turbanned young men, one entitled 'The Village Chokra'. The last work in the book is a watercolour, entitled 'The Birth of Sita', in similar style to the single example in this lot. A number of drawings and sculptures by Doris Gerrard were included in an exhibition in Bombay, of which seven sculptures and two drawings were illustrated. One of the drawings depicts a sitter called 'Amina', again apparently the same figure in some of the drawings. (See Catalogue of Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Doris Gerrard and Oil Paintings by Charles Gerrard, 4th-9th November 1940, Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay, in aid of the War Gifts Fund (Ladies' Committee), paperback, colour and black and white illustrations). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing