On display Birgit Jürgenssen Going to Bed Without Sleeping, 1986 A myriad of eyes seem to bulge from a half-human object. This eerie, uncanny depiction of a hybrid body against a background hatched…
On display Beauford Delaney Mémoire (Memory), 1964 Born into poverty and racial segregation, Beauford Delaney left his home state of Tennessee to study art in Boston. He moved to New…
On display Félix Vallotton Stéphane Mallarmé, 1896 Around the turn of the twentieth century, Félix Vallotton produced some four hundred portraits of well-known subjects, mostly his contemporaries. The small Indian ink sketches…
On display Renée Green Space Poem #2 (Endless Dreams Triptych), 2009 Renée Green’s multimedia installation Endless Dreams and Water Between explores how desires and dreams have taken shape around islands in literature and history. Colourful banners…
On display Banu Cennetoğlu Gurbet’s Diary (27.07.1995 – 08.10.1997), 2016-2017 The Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu trained as a photographer. She is interested in classification, access to knowledge, information dissemination and the political aspects of archives…
On display Guillaume Pilet My Life as a Parade, 2017 Guillaume Pilet is a multifaceted artist, working in paints, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performances, and opera to explore the language of abstraction and the afterlives of…
On display François Bocion Le remorqueur (The Tug), 1867 September 24, 1859. The Lake Geneva tugboat operating company launches the Mercure in Morges harbour as a crowd of onlookers claps and cheers. The steamship,…
On display Albert Anker La reine Berthe et les fileuses (Queen Bertha and the Spinners), 1888 A woman is busy teaching four girls hand-spinning. The activity lets Albert Anker form a diagonal across the centre of the composition, from the basket…
On display François Sablet Offrande à Hymen (Offering to Hymen), 1783 François Sablet, older brother of the better-known Jacques, travelled to Paris in 1768 to complete his studies in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien. He built…
On display André Derain Forêt en Île-de-France (Sous-bois) (Forest in Ile-de-France, undergrowth), c. 1946-1948 While Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso left Cubism behind and moved on to a "new synthesis", André Derain turned increasingly to a restrictive form of…
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…
On display Constantin Meunier Le Débardeur (The Stevedore), 1893 This is one of Constantin Meunier's best-known works, initially designed as part of a Monument to Labour that was never completed. Meunier worked from life…
On display Ernest Biéler Portrait d'Édouard Rod (Portrait of Édouard Rod), 1909 At the time this work was painted in 1909, Édouard Rod, a native of the Vaud, was a leading figure in the Swiss community in…
On display Félix Vallotton La bibliothèque (The Bookcase), 1915 This painting of a woman choosing a book from a shelf is a far cry from Félix Vallotton's Nabi interiors featuring the everyday triumphs and…
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…
On display Silvie et Chérif Defraoui Zénith, 1991 Silvie and Chérif Defraoui began working together in 1975 on the long-term project Archives du futur, involving a range of techniques including installations, videos, and…
On display Aimée Moreau Nature morte (Still Life), 1975 After leaving school in Paris, Aimée Moreau studied art privately in the same city, devoting herself entirely to painting from the mid-1950s on. She has…
On display Louise Breslau La vie pensive (Pensive Life), 1908 The strikingly monumental painting brings a highly Proustian tone to the tradition of Impressionist portraiture in the style of Edgar Degas and Henri Fantin-Latour. The…
On display Félix Vallotton Femme nue, rideau vert (Nude Woman, Green Curtain), 1897 Félix Vallotton's sensually posed Venus pudica, loosely clasping the veil that tantalisingly half-hides her lower body, is a solemn, cold, distant beauty. Her flesh, which…
On display Gustave Buchet La tour (The Tower), 1927 Gustave Buchet's La tour verges on geometric abstraction. The artist, drawn by increasingly rigorous, austere, minimalistic compositions and ever flatter swathes of colour in his…
On display Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, dit) Le Roi des chats (The King of Cats), 1935 Balthus’s self-portraits depict him with a series of assumed identities in which he never drops his mask. This 1935 portrait shows him standing in an…
On display Hans Sandreuter Abend (Evening), 1900 Hans Sandreuter received academic training in Munich, having travelled there in 1873 on the recommendation of his compatriot Arnold Böcklin. He later followed Böcklin to…
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…
On display Francis Gruber Nu dans l’atelier (Nude in the Studio), 1944 In 1944, the fate of Paris still hung on the uncertain outcome of the Second World War. That year, Francis Gruber painted his favourite model,…
On display Plinio Nomellini Polifonia, 1905 Plinio Nomellini learned to master the art of capturing light in paint when studying fine art in Florence with Giovanni Fattori, a member of the…
On display Robert Breer Sky Chief, 1955 Robert Breer began his career as a painter after studying at Stanford University, near San Francisco, in 1949. That same year he moved to Paris…
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…
