Philippe Cognée Portrait d'un arbre indien 1 (Portrait of an Indian tree 1), 2011 This painting of a wooded landscape is typical of French artist Philippe Cognée's work. It reflects his deep appreciation for nature, his use…
Chavannes Alfred Paysage aux Ormonts (Ormonts landscape), between 1874 and 1894 Alfred Chavannes trained as an artist with Alexandre Calame in Geneva, then Oswald Achenbach in Düsseldorf. He returned to Switzerland in 1874, building…
Émile Claus Blackfriars Bridge (easterly breeze), 1919 Blackfriars Bridge spans the Thames a few hundred metres from what is now Tate Modern. The Belgian artist Émile Claus chose a view…
Charles Édouard Rothenhaus La femme de Putiphar (Potiphar’s wife), 1880 The Book of Genesis recounts how Joseph, son of Jacob and Rachel, was sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers. His new owner was…
Leonora Carrington Acrobats, 1981 Leonora Carrington was a wild, rebellious child. She showed an early aptitude for drawing, proved ambidextrous as a painter, and wrote her letters backwards. She…
Charles-Louis Corbet Portrait du général Bonaparte (Portrait of General Bonaparte), c. 1800 This life-sized bust was commissioned by the Directoire, which hailed Napoléon Bonaparte as a hero on his return from the Italian campaign in December 1797.…
Gustave Courbet La Vigneronne de Montreux (Grape picker, Montreux), 1874 Gustave Courbet's time in exile in La Tour-de-Peilz inspired him mainly landscape paintings. He did not turn his back on the human figure completely, however,…
Carl Milles Triton, 1925-1930 Carl Milles was a towering figure in Swedish sculpture in the first half of the twentieth century. His early politically committed style eventually turned more…
On display Miriam Cahn Schiff, 1984 Miriam Cahn completed a demanding graphic design course at the Basel Gewerbeschule from 1968 to 1973, finding freedom of expression in drawing with her eyes…
Lynn Chadwick Conjunction XII, 1970 Lynn Chadwick was a self-taught sculptor. The influence of his architecture studies before World War Two is clear in his early works, reflecting an interest…
Julian Charrière We Are All Astronauts, 2013 We Are All Astronauts is one of the first works Julian Charrière completed after studying with Olafur Eliasson at Berlin's Institut für Raumexperimente in 2013.…
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…
Jean Crotti Igor, 2017 Jean Crotti left his literary studies at the University of Lausanne after a year to study fine art in Geneva from 1977-1979. Together with other…
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…
On display Claudia Comte Turn and Slip 120, 4/4, Turn and Slip 40, 1/4 et Turn and Slip 60, 4/4, 2015 Claudia Comte revisits the history of forms, with references ranging from sculpture of the first half of the twentieth century (Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Barbara…
Miriam Cahn Morgen Grauen, 1981 Miriam Cahn began specialising in drawing from the outset of her career. The medium allowed her to break free from the purely technical skills she…
Sophie Calle The Sleepers (Antoine Gonthier, Twentieth Sleeper, and Patrice X., Twenty-First Sleeper), 1979 Propped up on a bolster and a pile of pillows and tucked under warm blankets, fourteen-year-old Patrice X. is smiling timidly at the photographer. His…
Sophie Calle Le Major Davel (Major Davel), 1994 Sophie Calle's work from the 1990s often stages works of art missing from museums for various reasons. Her 1991 Last Seen... series, for instance, referenced…
On display Alexandre Calame Le lac de Brienz (Lake Brienz), 1843 Alexandre Calame’s talent was first spotted in 1829 by the banker Jacques-Amédée Diodati, who paid for him to study with François Diday, the master of…
On display Julian Charrière Pacific Fiction – Study for Monument, 2016 Faithful to the heritage of conceptual art, fascinated by land art and especially by Robert Smithson, influenced by Olafur Eliasson’s teaching at the Institut für…
Delphine Coindet Le cyclope (Cyclops), 2011 After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, and at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, Paris, Delphine Coindet spent several years in…
On display Luciano Castelli Haarzupfer (Hair Fleecing), 1973 Like Urs Lüthi, who also came from Lucerne, Castelli began his career in the early 1970s with representations of his own body, whether in performances…
On display Gustave Courbet Le vieil arbre dans la gorge (The Old Tree in the Gorge), 1871 From the early 1840s on, Gustave Courbet’s paintings expressed both the vagaries of collective history and his own inner torment. His landscapes and still lifes…
On display Geneviève Claisse Soleil des eaux (Sun of waters), 1965 Geneviève Claisse’s first steps in art in the latter half of the 1950s took her into geometric abstraction, exploring its most elementary possibilities over the…
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…
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…
Miriam Cahn das klassische lieben – femmes (classic love – women), 1981 For Miriam Cahn, the body is more than just a tool; it is also her subject. It makes perfect sense to her to depict the…
