Alex Katz Green Scarf, 1975 Influenced by pop art, Alex Katz produced a body of figurative painting dominated by portraits and landscapes. His subjects are broken down into large sections…
Asger Jorn Vol de Viol de Fgary de Gambe (Theft of a Viola da Fgary da Gamba), 1969 The Danish artist Asger Jorn was a member of several poetic-political groups, including CoBrA (1948–51) and the Situationist International (1957–72). Jorn is best known for…
Franz Gertsch Doris, 1989-1990 Franz Gertsch’s earliest paintings can be read in the light of pop art, with compositions based on photographs, figures reduced to silhouettes, a lack of…
Hanne Darboven K – Zeichnung – 74 - 1/IV/7/4 – 16 à – 30/IV/7/4 – 45, 1974 Hanne Darboven, the daughter of a wealthy shopkeeper, grew up surrounded by art. She started playing the piano as a child – many of her…
On display Jannis Kounellis Untitled Paint, 1965 Jannis Kounellis left his native Greece for Rome in 1956. During his studies, he was influenced by artists such as Lucio Fontana and Alberto Burri…
On display Karel Appel Varkensmens (Pig Man) or L’arcade (The Arcade), 1961 Karel Appel reacted to the devastation of the Second World War by creating paintings that grappled with the savagery of his experiences while expressing the…
Richard Artschwager Splatter Piano II, 1995 Richard Artschwager’s oeuvre was influenced by his mother, an artist, and his father, a botanist. Though he studied science and then earned a living for…
Cy Twombly Proem, 1983 Cy Twombly’s work draws on a deep well of scholarship. The artist displayed boundless intellectual curiosity from a very young age. In 1952 he travelled…
Robert Motherwell Elegy Study A, 1977 Robert Motherwell studied at Stanford and Yale universities. His intellectual interests spanned philosophy, literature, art history and psychology. In 1940, on returning to America after…
Louise Nevelson Mirror Shadow XV, 1985 Louise Nevelson was born Leah Berliawsky to a Jewish family in what was then the Russian Empire, now Ukraine. She emigrated to Maine, in the…
Robert Ireland Dépendances (Dependencies), 2000 Robert Ireland is an artist and also author of theoretical texts on the questions he explores in his oeuvre. His considerations on the history of…
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen Trottin sous la pluie (Delivery Girl in the Rain), 1898 The four thousand or so works in Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen’s print oeuvre made use of all the mechanical and photomechanical reproduction techniques available to him at…
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen Guerre à la guerre (War at War), between 1916 and 1920 This drawing poignantly reworks two pieces of art that were a lifelong inspiration for Steinlen: the painting La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the People)…
Eugène Grasset Apparition d’un visage nimbé dans le ciel au-dessus de Paris (Appearance of a Haloed Face in the Sky over Paris), 1898 This painting is one of a number of subjects imagined by Eugène Grasset that explains the interest idealists took in his work from the early…
Louis Soutter Amants. Aurons-nous? un logis d’hiver (Lovers. Will We Have? A Winter Abode), between 1937 and 1942 Louis Soutter captures images in movement, freezing them for all eternity. A constant flux of black silhouettes, doomed to eternal rootlessness, are forced to keep…
Félix Vallotton Le port de Rouen (The Port of Rouen), 1901 At the turn of the twentieth century, Rouen was one of France’s busiest river ports and a popular destination for painters. Camille Pissarro visited its…
On display Julian Charrière Pacific Fiction – Study for Monument, 2016 Faithful to the heritage of conceptual art, fascinated by land art and especially by Robert Smithson, influenced by Olafur Eliasson’s teaching at the Institut für…
Félix Vallotton Ruisseau rouille et galets blancs (Rust Stream and White Pebbles), 1921 A painful case of sciatica that came on in 1916 prompted Félix Vallotton to decide in late autumn 1920 to spend the winter season in…
On display Charles Giron Jeune femme au piano (Young Woman at the Piano) or Portrait de Mlle Maguie D. (Portrait of Mlle Maguie D.), 1880 For the Swiss, Charles Giron’s most emblematic work is undoubtedly Le berceau de la Confédération (The Cradle of the Confederation, 1901), a gigantic Alpine landscape…
Anselm Kiefer Die Rheintöchter (The Rhinemaidens), 1982 - 2013 This monumental work is part of a set of works on the Rhine, near Anselm Kiefer’s childhood home, as a cultural symbol and a border.…
Félix Vallotton L’âge du papier. Dessin pour Le Cri de Paris (The Age of Paper. Drawing for Le Cri de Paris), 1898 Félix Vallotton rose to fame in the 1890s with his woodblock engravings and his illustrations for the rapidly growing press industry. Having moved from Switzerland…
Kader Attia Culture, Another Nature Repaired, 2014 For nearly twenty years, Kader Attia has been interested in the question of repair, understood in both senses, as the action of repairing – an…
Delphine Coindet Le cyclope (Cyclops), 2011 After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, and at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, Paris, Delphine Coindet spent several years in…
Francis Alÿs Railings, 2004 Francis Alÿs has been walking since 1990. He started his walks in Mexico City, his chosen home since 1986, and has continued in São Paulo,…
Joan Jonas Songdelay, 1973 Initially trained as a sculptor, Joan Jonas was involved in the development of performance art in the late 1960s alongside other artists of the New…
On display Nam June Paik Global Groove, 1973 One of the founders of video art, Nam June Paik produced a vast corpus of works comprising video tapes, televisual productions, performances and installations. In…
Christopher Füllemann The Peeks and the Kiss, 2013 A graduate of the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne and the San Francisco Art Institute, Christopher Füllemann works at the intersection of sculpture and performance.…
