Mystic India through Art

Mrs. Sass Brunner Elizabeth Farkas and Miss Elizabeth Brunner, Mystic India through Art, [Place of publication not identified], [1937?]

260 pages with 68 full-page black and white illustrations and 5 tipped-in colour plates; original cloth-covered boards with title embossed in gilt on cover and held together with silk strings.
11.8 x 9 in (30 x 23 cm)

Signed copy by Miss Elizabeth Brunner to Mrs. Bowles (Wife of Mr. Chester Bowles, American Ambassador to India), New Delhi, 1952

Foreword By Kanaiyalal H. Vakil; Introductions by Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Professor P. Seshadri, Professor R.F. Piper; Explanations of Paintings By Professor G.H. Langley, et al

Has Preface by Mrs Sass Brunner, facsimile of letter by Mahatma Gandhi, letter with printed signature of Rabindranath Tagore, and selected pages of photographs, paintings and text pages [pp. 15-22/ 40-41/ 45-47/ 50-52/ 103/ 77-78/ 54-55/ 65-66/ 61-62/ 71-72/ 81-82/ 88-99/ 104/ 107-108/ 115-117/ 122-130]. All pages and plates are printed on one side only. There are some pages with tipped-in colour plates. Includes paintings of Gandhiji, Krishnamurti and Tagore. There is a sticker at the end giving the Brunners' address to order copies.

Born in 1909 in Nagykanizsa, a small town in Hungary, Elizabeth Brunner was the daughter of painters Ferenc Sass and Elizabeth Sass-Brunner. Her story is a most curious one. Convinced by a dream to travel across the world, Elizabeth Brunner was a dynamic person who left her mark on the world not only with her ethereal paintings but also through her sweet and compassionate nature.

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