Trance Painting
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TitleTrance Painting
Reference codeHPG/1/12/11
Date1924-1934
Scope and ContentTrance painting, 'A Buddhist Monastery in Ceylon', painted automatically in 12 minutes by Heinrich Nusslein, of Nuremberg, using coloured oils, principally with the fingers (1929).
Also includes:
Photographs of and relating to paintings and drawings composed while the artist was in trance, including the following:
i. Photograph of pencil drawing of 'Patsy' automatically drawn by Helen Wells under the spirit Eswald, Count of Madrid (n.d.) [321]
ii. Trance drawing in lead pencil by Josef Kotzian of Priroz, Czechoslovakia (n.d.) [201] (Copyright: Photopress)
iii. Trance drawing in lead pencil by Josef Kotzian of Priroz, Czechoslovakia, different drawing from above, different photograph from ii above (n.d.) [269]
iv. Trance drawing of two cats by a 'woman of weak intellect' at The Hague, who used both left and right hands simutaneously (n.d.) [270]
v. Trance painting, 'A Buddhist Monastery in Ceylon', painted automatically in 12 minutes by Heinrich Nusslein, of Nuremberg, using coloured oils, principally with the fingers (1929) (2 copies) [271-272]
vi. Photograph of trance painter Augustin Lesage working while in trance (n.d.) [36] (Copyright Meurisse, Paris)
vii. Photograph of trace painting by French trance painter Augustin Lesage (n.d.) [218]
viii. Head and shoulders photograph of Polish trance painter Marjan Grugewski (n.d.) [275]
ix. Photograph of trance painting by Marjan Grugewski completed in 15 minutes (n.d.) [273]
x. Photograph of trance painting by Marjan Grugewski (n.d.) [274]
xi. Automatic trance drawing by Madame X, when controlled by alleged spirit 'Gerald' (1924) [1442A]
xii. Detail of photograph xi above (1924)
xiii. Two trance paintings (n.d.)
xiv. Sample of automatic writing (20 March 1934) [1082]
xv. Photograph of trance drawing by Captain A.Pearse of Elsie Cameron. Miss Cameron was murdered on 5 December 1924 and the crime was not known, or the body recovered, for some days after this trance drawing was excecuted (8 December 1924) [1439A]
Also includes:
Photographs of and relating to paintings and drawings composed while the artist was in trance, including the following:
i. Photograph of pencil drawing of 'Patsy' automatically drawn by Helen Wells under the spirit Eswald, Count of Madrid (n.d.) [321]
ii. Trance drawing in lead pencil by Josef Kotzian of Priroz, Czechoslovakia (n.d.) [201] (Copyright: Photopress)
iii. Trance drawing in lead pencil by Josef Kotzian of Priroz, Czechoslovakia, different drawing from above, different photograph from ii above (n.d.) [269]
iv. Trance drawing of two cats by a 'woman of weak intellect' at The Hague, who used both left and right hands simutaneously (n.d.) [270]
v. Trance painting, 'A Buddhist Monastery in Ceylon', painted automatically in 12 minutes by Heinrich Nusslein, of Nuremberg, using coloured oils, principally with the fingers (1929) (2 copies) [271-272]
vi. Photograph of trance painter Augustin Lesage working while in trance (n.d.) [36] (Copyright Meurisse, Paris)
vii. Photograph of trace painting by French trance painter Augustin Lesage (n.d.) [218]
viii. Head and shoulders photograph of Polish trance painter Marjan Grugewski (n.d.) [275]
ix. Photograph of trance painting by Marjan Grugewski completed in 15 minutes (n.d.) [273]
x. Photograph of trance painting by Marjan Grugewski (n.d.) [274]
xi. Automatic trance drawing by Madame X, when controlled by alleged spirit 'Gerald' (1924) [1442A]
xii. Detail of photograph xi above (1924)
xiii. Two trance paintings (n.d.)
xiv. Sample of automatic writing (20 March 1934) [1082]
xv. Photograph of trance drawing by Captain A.Pearse of Elsie Cameron. Miss Cameron was murdered on 5 December 1924 and the crime was not known, or the body recovered, for some days after this trance drawing was excecuted (8 December 1924) [1439A]
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