Maurice de Vlaminck La Neige à Auvers (Snow in Auvers), circa 1924 Maurice de Vlaminck caused a scandal at the 1905 autumn salon in Paris with Henri Matisse and André Derain for canvases that combined colours at…
Félix Vallotton Nature morte aux glaïeuls (Still Life With Gladioli), 1924 ‘I am deep in a still life, the ordinary expedient of bad days, but by applying myself I manage to save the day. [...] I…
Eugène Grasset Calendrier de La Belle Jardinière. Les Mois. Juillet (Calendar for La Belle Jardinière. The Months. July), 1896 In 1896, Eugène Grasset was commissioned by the La Belle Jardinière clothing boutique to produce a calendar. He showed the original watercolours at the Société…
Charles Despiau Buste de Madame André Derain (Bust of Madame André Derain), 1926 Charles Despiau studied fine art in Paris and was then hired by Auguste Rodin to work in his studio from 1907 to 1914. Seeing himself…
Félix Vallotton Les saules (Willows), 1900 Having spent the best part of three years working on his engraving skills and developing the Nabi aesthetic in nudes and genre scenes, Félix Vallotton's…
On display Louise Breslau La vie pensive (Pensive Life), 1908 The strikingly monumental painting brings a highly Proustian tone to the tradition of Impressionist portraiture in the style of Edgar Degas and Henri Fantin-Latour. The…
On display Félix Vallotton Femme nue, rideau vert (Nude Woman, Green Curtain), 1897 Félix Vallotton's sensually posed Venus pudica, loosely clasping the veil that tantalisingly half-hides her lower body, is a solemn, cold, distant beauty. Her flesh, which…
Rembrandt Bugatti Braque et ses chiots (Pointer with puppies), circa 1904 Rembrandt Bugatti began sculpting animals as a young man, alongside his training in painting, decorating and cabinet-making in the Milan workshop run by his father,…
Gustave Buchet Composition, 1925 Working in Paris in the early 1920s, Gustave Buchet turned away from Futurism and joined the Section d'or, a group of artists who set out…
On display Gustave Buchet La tour (The Tower), 1927 Gustave Buchet's La tour verges on geometric abstraction. The artist, drawn by increasingly rigorous, austere, minimalistic compositions and ever flatter swathes of colour in his…
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Ouchy, près de Lausanne (Ouchy, near Lausanne, July 1842 From the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth, the dramatic, jagged profile of the Swiss Alps drew painters from around the world. Corot was…
Édouard Vuillard Madame Vuillard cousant, rue Truffaut (Madame Vuillard Sewing, Rue Truffaut), c. 1900 Painted on a small piece of cardboard, this work dates from towards the end of Édouard Vuillard’s Nabi period and shows the living room of…
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Fontainebleau – Orage sur les plaines (Fontainebleau – Storm over the Plains), 1822 Seeing their son's determination to become a painter, Camille Corot's parents decided in 1821 to give him an annual income to let him try and…
Félix Vallotton Vases de Honfleur (Mudflats at Honfleur), 1917 Félix Vallotton's visits to Honfleur were seminal in the development of his composite landscapes. He also conducted further research in his Normandy studio, exploring ways…
Albert Marquet Lausanne et le lac (Lausanne and the Lake), 1936 On January 23, 1936, Paul Vallotton, founder of the Lausanne gallery of the same name, died while on the telephone to discuss a forthcoming exhibition…
Edgar Degas Femme se frottant le dos avec une éponge, torse (Woman Scrubbing her Back with a Sponge, Torso, 1880s-1890s When Edgar Degas died on September 27, 1917, some hundred and fifty sculptures, for the most part in wax and clay, were found in his…
On display Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, dit) Le Roi des chats (The King of Cats), 1935 Balthus’s self-portraits depict him with a series of assumed identities in which he never drops his mask. This 1935 portrait shows him standing in an…
On display Hans Sandreuter Abend (Evening), 1900 Hans Sandreuter received academic training in Munich, having travelled there in 1873 on the recommendation of his compatriot Arnold Böcklin. He later followed Böcklin to…
On display Francis Gruber Nu dans l’atelier (Nude in the Studio), 1944 In 1944, the fate of Paris still hung on the uncertain outcome of the Second World War. That year, Francis Gruber painted his favourite model,…
On display Plinio Nomellini Polifonia, 1905 Plinio Nomellini learned to master the art of capturing light in paint when studying fine art in Florence with Giovanni Fattori, a member of the…
Jean-Léon Gérôme Caravane passant près des colosses de Memnon. Thèbes (Caravan Passing the Colossi of Memnon, Thebes), 1856 Following Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798, Egypt was a source of fascination for scholars, scientists and artists throughout the nineteenth century. When Jean-Léon Gérôme…
Félix Vallotton Les Affiches lumineuses. Dessin pour Les Rassemblements (Brightly Lit Posters. Drawing for Les Rassemblements), 1895/1902-1903 In the autumn of 1895, Félix Vallotton produced a series of thirty drawings for Badauderies parisiennes. Les Rassemblements. Physiologies de la rue (A Study of…
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen Paris. Grand roman inédit par Émile Zola. Supplément gratuit du Journal (Paris. Brand new novel by Émile Zola. Free supplement for Le Journal), 1897 Like Félix Vallotton, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen was a Swiss artist who moved to Paris, where he regularly used the illustrated press as an outlet for his…
Félix Vallotton Les toits, rue Mérimée (Rooftops, rue Mérimée), vers 1903 In the spring of 1903, Félix Vallotton and his family moved into an elegant town house at 59, rue des Belles-Feuilles, in the chic 16th…
Ferdinand Hodler Étude pour Unanimité (Study for Unanimity), 1911/1912 The development of a Swiss national art policy in the 1880s and 1890s led to numerous government commissions for important buildings. Paradoxically, the polemic that…
Albert Marquet Les deux pêcheurs à Naples (Two Anglers in Naples), 1911 1905 marked the beginning of what Albert Marquet's wife Marcelle referred to as his ‘travelling period’. The artist, whose works generate a sense of quiet…
Louis Ducros Le marchand de fritures (The Fried Food Vendor), 1782 In Rome, bustling street scenes featuring contemporaries in local costume became an increasingly successful genre in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Popular with…
