DISERENS, Hélène Suzanne. Switzerland 17.11.1920 — Paris 10.11.2005. Swiss (?) Art Historian. Grew up in Kobe, Japan, in the age of 14 she was sent to a school in Switzerland. From 1951 worked as photographer at Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Retired in 1980, then living in Paris. In the 1980s and 1990s field-work in Kulu Valley.
Publications: “Rajas and Chieftains in the Sculpture of Kullu valley and the neighbouring Regions”, SAA 1987:2, Rome 1990, 1181-1193.
– “La statue de Brār (Kaśmīr) retrouvée”, Arts as. 48, 1993, 72-85; “Images et symboles des déesses de la haute vallée du Kulu”, BÉI 13-14, 1995-96, 91-115; “Two Stone Reliefs of Sūrya from Gum: A Study of the Sun-Chariot and its Teams”, Silk Road Art and Archaeology 5, 1997-98, 329-351, 7 pl.
– “Castes, privilèges et divinité tutélaire. Pages d’histoire d’un village en Himalaya Occidental au XIXe siècle”, JA 289, 2001, 237-284; “L’iconographie du temple de Markula devī au Lahoul”, Arts as. 62, 2007, 5-28.
– Other articles on Himalayan (Kulu) art e.g. in CAJ 1981, AION 1985-86, SAA 1985, BEI 1988, Arts as. 1997, JA 2001, etc.
Sources: Briefly in BEI 6, 1988, 76*; stray notes in Internet; personal knowledge 1995.