On display François Dubois Le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy(The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre), vers 1572-1584 This painting represents the massacre of the Protestants that was triggered on 24 August 1572 in Paris and continued for several days: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day…
On display Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Lausanne et le lac Léman (Lausanne and Lake Geneva), juillet 1842 While Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s three visits to Italy are the best-known of his travels outside France, he actually visited Switzerland more often. His mother was from…
On display Maria Helena Viera da Silva La ville suspendue (Hanging City), 1952 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was a member of the Second Paris School, a loose group of post-war artists whose best-known members include Jean Bazaine,…
On display Jacques Sablet La tarentelle (Tarentella), 1799 Forced to flee Rome due to repercussions from the French Revolution, Jacques Sablet arrived in Paris in January 1794. There he was accepted into the…
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…
On display Albert Anker La Mariette aux fraises (Mariette with Strawberries), 1884 After a youth spent between Anet, Neuchâtel and Bern, Albert Anker put his two languages (French and German) to use in conquering the art markets…
On display Zao Wou-Ki Hommage à Edgar Varèse – 25.10.64(Homage to Edgar Varèse – 25.10.64), 1964 The Chinese-born artist Zao Wou-Ki was one of the leading figures of lyrical abstraction from the late 1950s on. He settled in France in 1948…
On display Leiko Ikemura Gelbe Figur mit drei Armen (Yellow Figure with Three Arms), 1996 Leiko Ikemura left her native Japan for Europe in 1972 and began developing her oeuvre after studying drawing at the Seville school for fine arts,…
On display John M Armleder Furniture Sculpture 189, 1988 In 1969, John M Armleder organised his first public event, the Ecart Happening Festival, in Geneva. This marked the creation of the Ecart group, part…
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…
