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 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…
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 Horace Vernet Première messe en Kabylie (First mass in Kabylia), 1854 Horace Vernet first travelled to Algeria following the French army on its conquest of North Africa. His first of many visits to the country came…
On display 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 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,…
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 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…
On display Pierre Bonnard Beau temps orageux (Fine Stormy Weather), 1910-1911 At the dawn of the twentieth century, Provence and the Côte d'Azur proved a testing ground for modern art. Vincent Van Gogh described the region…
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 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…
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 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…
On display Édouard Vuillard Madame Vuillard cousant, rue Truffaut (Madame Vuillard Sewing, Rue Truffaut), c. 1900 Painted on a small piece of cardboard, this work dates from towards the end of Édouard Vuillard’s Nabi period and shows the living room of…
