Gustave Buchet Sculpto-peinture – abstraite – (Sculpto-Painting – Abstract –), 1923–4 In the early 1920s Gustave Buchet painted several flat-surfaced canvases, some of them tending towards abstraction. At the same time, he was involved in projects…
Alice Bailly Les rythmiciennes (The Rhythmicians), 1918-1919 Published in 1918 by Albert Rheinwald, the first monograph on Bailly insists on the originality of her most recent work: ‘[B]efore our eyes wool becomes…
On display Marcel Broodthaers Le drapeau noir (Black Flag), 1968 In 1968 Marcel Broodthaers started making plastic panels onto which he thermoformed texts sometimes accompanied by an image or punctuation marks, in the manner of…
Gustave Buchet Danseuse en mouvement (Dancer in Motion), 1918 Trained at the École des beaux-arts in Geneva, Gustave Buchet first stayed in Paris in winter 1910. In 1915 he was in Geneva as cofounder…
Charles Blanc-Gatti Suite bergamasque de Debussy (Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque), c. 1930 In 1911 Charles Blanc-Gatti moved to Paris, then in a state of artistic effervescence, where he worked as a draughtsman. After a period working in…
On display François Bocion Filets et pêcheurs (Nets and Fishermen), c. 1877 François Bocion’s painting depicts an everyday fishing scene, a common theme in his work from the 1860s on. A young fisherman just back from an…
Eugène Burnand La prière sacerdotale (The Sacerdotal Prayer), 1900-1918 When, at the turn of the twentieth century, Burnand dreamed of excelling at high art, it was religious art that he had in mind. Where…
On display Émile-Antoine Bourdelle Tête d’Apollon (Head of Apollo), between 1900 and 1909 Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, who was a keen student of Greek art, took inspiration from the works of Antiquity for many of his pieces. One such was…
On display Tom Burr Abstract Lausanne II / Lausanne Abstrait II, 2006 Tom Burr produces works – photographs, sculptures and installations – that revisit the formal vocabulary of the avant-gardes, especially minimalism and post-minimalism, and combines pop…
Günter Brus Nachtnacht, 1987 Günter Brus is a representative of Viennese actionism, alongside artists such as Otto Muehl and Hermann Nitsch. This movement, which developed in the 1960s, was…
René Bauermeister Animation lumineuse (Luminous Animation), 1966-1968 Animation lumineuse is one in a set of six sculptures made by Bauermeister between 1966 and 1968 which he donated to the Museum in 1976,…
Marius Borgeaud La Bretonne qui passe (Breton Woman Passing By), 1922 After moving to Paris from his native Lausanne, Marius Borgeaud discovered Brittany in 1908 and from then on to the end of his life spent…
Marcel Broodthaers Tour de Babel (Tower of Babel), 1966 Marcel Broodthaers’s career was as prolific as it was brief, giving rise to books, films, photographs, sculptures, objects, drawings and installations, among others. His career…
On display Eugène Burnand Taureau dans les Alpes (Bull in the Alps), 1884 Eugène Burnand, from the canton of Vaud, moved to Paris in 1872 and studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme. By the early 1880s he was working within…
Louise Breslau Portrait de Mlle Julie Feurgard (Sous les pommiers)(Portrait of Mlle Julie Feurgard [Under the Apple Trees]), 1886 Louise Breslau from Zurich was already more than two years into an existential and artistic crisis when she painted this portrait in 1886. She had…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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