Giovanni Giacometti Maloja en hiver or Piz Lagrev (Maloja in Winter or Piz Lagrev), 1929 When Ferdinand Hodler died in 1918, Giovanni Giacometti became one of the leading figures on the Swiss German art scene, rivalled only by with Cuno…
Franz Gertsch Doris, 1989-1990 Franz Gertsch’s earliest paintings can be read in the light of pop art, with compositions based on photographs, figures reduced to silhouettes, a lack of…
Eugène Grasset Apparition d’un visage nimbé dans le ciel au-dessus de Paris (Appearance of a Haloed Face in the Sky over Paris), 1898 This painting is one of a number of subjects imagined by Eugène Grasset that explains the interest idealists took in his work from the early…
On display Charles Giron Jeune femme au piano (Young Woman at the Piano) or Portrait de Mlle Maguie D. (Portrait of Mlle Maguie D.), 1880 For the Swiss, Charles Giron’s most emblematic work is undoubtedly Le berceau de la Confédération (The Cradle of the Confederation, 1901), a gigantic Alpine landscape…
On display Giovanni Giacometti Alberto che legge (Alberto Reading), c. 1915 This portrait shows the home in Stampa where Giovanni Giacometti spent the last four decades of his life. By the time Alberto, the first of…
Fabrice Gygi Crossblocks, 2001 Fabrice Gygi’s sculptures are inspired by barriers, sandbag walls, airbags, roadblocks, control towers, pylons and water cannons, all forms of street furniture that play a…
On display Charles Gleyre La danse des bacchantes (The Dance of the Bacchants), 1849 An exclusively female affair, the bacchanal takes place under the implacable gaze of a hieratic priestess who is the guardian of the altar supporting the…
Eugène Grasset Affiche pour une exposition d’art décoratif français à la Grafton Gallery de Londres (Poster for an Exhibition of French Decorative Art at the Grafton Gallery, London), 1893 Eugène Grasset made his first forays into poster design in the mid-1880s and soon acquired an excellent reputation, working both commercially and for publishers as…
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…
On display 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…
Renée Green Commemorative Toile, 1992 Renée Green collects words, images, narratives and sounds. She journeys back and forth between past and present, between real and imaginary spaces, between disciplines, layering…
