Stephan Balkenhol Phoque I et II (Seal I and II), 1989 After visiting documenta 5 in 1972 while in his teens, Stephan Balkenhol decided to become a sculptor. He then studied at Hamburg Hochschule für Bildende…
Louis Ducros Orage nocturne à Cefalù (Night Storm at Cefalù), vers 1800-1805 After nearly twenty years in Rome, during which he achieved great renown, Louis Ducros was forced to leave the city in 1793, due to measures…
On display Giovanni Giacometti Nature morte aux livres (Still Life with Books), vers 1907-1908 After studying applied arts in Munich, Giovanni Giacometti left for Paris in 1888 with his friend Cuno Amiet to further his artistic education. However, his…
Paul Cézanne Nature morte aux sept pommes et tube de couleur(Still Life with Seven Apples and Tube of Paint), 1878 - 1879 Paul Cézanne started using apples as the subject of his still lifes in the 1870s. Whether piled up in a fruit bowl, artfully spread over…
Henri Matisse Nature morte au couteau noir (Still life with black Knife), 1896 Henri Matisse spent hours at the Louvre copying the old masters as his teacher at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, Gustave Moreau, had…
Hyacinthe Rigaud Marie d’Orléans, duchesse de Nemours, 1705 With his contemporary Nicolas de Largillierre, Hyacinthe Rigaud dominated the market for formal portraits in France during the first decades of the eighteenth century. He…
On display François Dubois Le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy(The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre), vers 1572-1584 This painting represents the massacre of the Protestants that was triggered on 24 August 1572 in Paris and continued for several days: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day…
Alice Bailly Le concert dans le jardin (Concert in a Garden), 1920 As a Swiss citizen, Alice Bailly was forced to leave Paris during the First World War and struggled to make a living in Geneva. Most…
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Lausanne et le lac Léman (Lausanne and Lake Geneva), juillet 1842 While Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s three visits to Italy are the best-known of his travels outside France, he actually visited Switzerland more often. His mother was from…
On display Jacques Sablet La tarentelle (Tarentella), 1799 Forced to flee Rome due to repercussions from the French Revolution, Jacques Sablet arrived in Paris in January 1794. There he was accepted into the…
Théodore Géricault, d'après Titien La Mise au tombeau (The Entombment), vers 1810 - 1812 Although Théodore Géricault was no admirer of his art teachers Carle Vernet and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, feeling his creativity stifled in their studios, he nonetheless followed…
On display Albert Anker La Mariette aux fraises (Mariette with Strawberries), 1884 After a youth spent between Anet, Neuchâtel and Bern, Albert Anker put his two languages (French and German) to use in conquering the art markets…
Félix Vallotton La chambre rouge (The Red Room), 1898 Félix Vallotton attained recognition in the 1890s with his woodcuts, and in particular with his Intimités series, ten scenes from the private life (intimité) of…
Auguste Rodin L’Homme au serpent (Man with Snake), 1887 This sculpture could have been inspired by Dante’s description of the damned fighting with snakes, as here, in Canto XXV of the Inferno: ‘As we…
Ernest Biéler L’Eau mystérieuse (The Mysterious Water), 1911 Ernest Biéler worked tirelessly on L’Eau mystérieuse from 1908 to 1911. From the outset, he conceived the painting as an art nouveau manifesto aiming to…
Oskar Kokoschka Glion, vue sur le lac Léman (Glion, View over Lake Geneva), 1956 Oskar Kokoschka was fascinated by Lake Geneva from the time he first saw it at the age of twenty-four when travelling to Switzerland with the…
On display François Bocion Bocion et sa famille à la pêche(Bocion and His Family Out Fishing), 1877 The leisure activity depicted in this work was still rare in the 1870s: such boating was the preserve of a circle of initiates, otherwise the…
Ferdinand Hodler Blick ins Unendliche (Gaze into Infinity), 1903 / 1904 Ferdinand Hodler met Gustav Klimt and many other artists of the Viennese avant-garde, as well as their collectors, when visiting the Austro-Hungarian capital in early…
Félix Vallotton Autoportrait à l'âge de vingt ans(Self-Portrait at the Age of Twenty), 1885 Félix Vallotton arrived in Paris from his native Lausanne at the age of sixteen and attended courses at the Académie Julian. He soon began looking…
