Martha Rosler Woman with Cannon (Dots) (from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home), 1967-1972 Martha Rosler initially trained in painting before turning to photography as a student at the University of California San Diego. The years from…
Anne Rochat Doris Magico’s Nose is Facing Chongqing, chapitre 5 de Doris Magico, 2019 Anne Rochat's art consists essentially of performances developed in response to particular situations and spaces: as she said in 2020, she seeks "the tangible experience…
Édouard Ravel Fête patronale au val d'Hérens (Patronal Feast Day, Val d'Hérens), 1889 Edouard Ravel studied under Barthélemy Menn and Alfred van Muyden and eventually took up a teaching position at the Geneva School of Fine Art himself.…
Léopold Robert Brigand de la campagne romaine (Brigand in the Roman Campagna), 1821 Léopold Robert initially trained as an engraver. In 1812, he joined the studio of Jacques-Louis David, who encouraged him to turn to painting. Robert moved…
Auguste Renoir Coco. Portrait de Claude Renoir (Coco. Portrait of Claude Renoir), 1908 Auguste Renoir called on friends and family to sit for him throughout his career. In the early years, this was a purely economic decision, avoiding…
On display Auguste Rodin Bust of Victor Hugo, c. 1883-1884 The journalist and art critic Edmond Bazire paid Auguste Rodin a visit late in the autumn of 1882. Rodin confided he was still wounded by…
Auguste Renoir Paysage, le lac (Landscape, the lake), c. 1890 In the early 1860s, landscape painting was a way for Auguste Renoir, then a fledgling artist, to paint out in the open air. He would…
Auguste Renoir Paysage du Midi (Landscape, Southern France), circa 1910 (?) Auguste Renoir first saw Provence on his way back from a tour of Algeria and Italy in 1881-1882. He visited Paul Cézanne in the port…
Didier Rittener Après tout (After All), 2011 Didier Rittener has spent nearly twenty years building an archive of images. He copies faces, patterns, textual fragments, works of art, and landscapes onto A4…
On display Markus Raetz Nichtrauch/Non-fumée (Notsmoke), 1990-1992 Markus Raetz’s drawings, engravings and sculptures play with the viewer’s visual perception: shapes are unveiled or they shift before our very eyes as we move…
Arnulf Rainer Ohne Titel (Face Farces) [Untitled (Face Farces)], 1969 Arnulf Rainer created the first of his Übermalungen (overpaintings) in 1952, covering reproductions of art works with paint; to the point of making them in…
Léo-Paul Robert Étude pour La Justice élève les nations (Study for Righteousness Exalteth a Nation), 1901 Léo-Paul Robert, a native of Neuchâtel, was born into a family of painters including his father Aurèle and his uncle Léopold. He studied in Munich…
Dieter Roth Braunvieh (Brown Cow), 1974 Dieter Roth made art using whatever came to hand. He enjoyed using materials such as foodstuffs, including chocolate, banana, salami and cheese, that not only…
On display Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz Normal Work, 2007 Born in Lausanne and based in Berlin since the late 1990s, Pauline Boudry has developed a practice that embraces film and video on the one…
Didier Rittener Bouc (Billy Goat), 2004 Didier Rittener designs his transfers, prints, sculptures and murals based on an archive of pencil drawings on A4 tracing paper. The drawings depict faces, animals,…
Markus Raetz CECI – CELA (THIS – THAT), 1992-1993 Markus Raetz has been interested in perception since the 1960s. He uses simple, ingenious tricks to design sculptures that are transformed by movement: either…
Arnulf Rainer Nackenhaar (Neck Hair), 1975 From as early as 1952, Arnulf Rainer developed a painting style typified by the nervous energy of the artistic process. His work on reproductions of…
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…
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…
Anne-Julie Raccoursier Grace-Notes, 2005 Anne-Julie Raccoursier’s video work stands at the intersection of recorded live scenes and spectacularly staged images. She starts from real life, working on the images…
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