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…
On display Albert Oehlen Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1981 Having trained at the Hamburg Hochschule für bildende Künste in the late 1970s, Albert Oehlen is part of the generation of artists who have focused…
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…
On display Daniel Spoerri Aktion Restaurant Spoerri. Tableau-piège (Aktion Restaurant Spoerri. Trap-Painting), 1972 In 1960, Pierre Restany and Yves Klein created the new realist group. Many artists, including Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Martial Raysse and Jean Tinguely, signed the…
On display Émilienne Farny Rue de l’Armorique (Façade), c. 1970 From 1962 to 1972 Émilienne Farny lived in Paris, in the 14th arrondissement. As a painter, her focus was always on reality. In the French…
On display Luciano Castelli Haarzupfer (Hair Fleecing), 1973 Like Urs Lüthi, who also came from Lucerne, Castelli began his career in the early 1970s with representations of his own body, whether in performances…
On display Tadeusz Kantor Multipart, 1970 A visual artist and creator of happenings, Tadeusz Kantor was a major figure on the Polish experimental theatre scene as production designer, director and author.…
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…
On display Janos Urban Construction n° 6, 1969 In 1956 Janos Urban reached Switzerland as a political refugee from his native Hungary. Having begun his artistic training in Budapest, he now continued at…
On display Maurice Utrillo Paysage, Corse (Landscape, Corsica), 1913 As a teenager, Maurice Utrillo was encouraged to paint by his mother, Suzanne Valadon, a model and self-taught artist, who hoped that it would have…
On display Albert Marquet Notre-Dame, temps de neige (Notre Dame under Snow), c. 1914 By January 1908 Albert Marquet was living on the fifth floor at 19 Quai Saint-Michel. He approached the scene in Paris as a totality, as…
On display Gustave Courbet Le vieil arbre dans la gorge (The Old Tree in the Gorge), 1871 From the early 1840s on, Gustave Courbet’s paintings expressed both the vagaries of collective history and his own inner torment. His landscapes and still lifes…
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…
On display Inconnu [Suisse occidentale] Sainte Anne enseignant la Vierge (Saint Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read), c. 1550-1580 Anne and Joachim, Mary’s parents, are not mentioned in the Bible but do appear in the Apocrypha. The cult of Saint Anne developed in the…
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 Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen L’aurore (Aurora), 1903 A major exhibition and sale of 101 works by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen opened in Paris in 1903. In the catalogue, the writer Anatole France emphasised the…
On display Giuseppe Penone A occhi chiusi (With Eyes Closed), 2018 Giuseppe Penone spent his early years in the countryside, giving him an inalienable sense of the importance of the bond between humans and nature and…
On display Pierre Soulages Peinture (Painting), 1956 After having given up an opportunity to study at the École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1937, Soulages returned to the city in…
On display VALIE EXPORT Space Seeing - Space Hearing, 1973–4 In 1967, VALIE EXPORT abandoned her birth surname for that of a brand of cheap cigarettes, ‘Smart Export’, which became her artist and legal name.…
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…
On display Leiko Ikemura Eintauchen (Submerging), 1999 Leiko Ikemura’s pictorial practice took a new turn in the early 1990s. Her expressive early paintings gave way to a more restrained form, with strokes…
On display Jean Otth Limite E (Limit E), 1973 Jean Otth made his first video works in 1971 and showed them the following year at Galerie Impact in Lausanne (Action Film Vidéo) and at…
On display Claude Monet Voiliers en mer (Sailing Boats at Sea), 1868 After several years in Paris, Claude Monet returned to Le Havre for a few months in the summer of 1862. He went painting along the…
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…
On display Geneviève Claisse Soleil des eaux (Sun of waters), 1965 Geneviève Claisse’s first steps in art in the latter half of the 1950s took her into geometric abstraction, exploring its most elementary possibilities over the…
On display Paul Cézanne Nature morte aux sept pommes et tube de couleur(Still Life with Seven Apples and Tube of Paint), 1878 - 1879 Paul Cézanne started using apples as the subject of his still lifes in the 1870s. Whether piled up in a fruit bowl, artfully spread over…
On display Henri Matisse Nature morte au couteau noir (Still life with black Knife), 1896 Henri Matisse spent hours at the Louvre copying the old masters as his teacher at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, Gustave Moreau, had…
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