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Daniel Spoerri , Aktion Restaurant Spoerri. Tableau-piège (Aktion Restaurant Spoerri. Trap-Painting), 1972

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…

Arnulf Rainer, Nackenhaar (Neck Hair), 1975

Arnulf Rainer

Nackenhaar (Neck Hair), 1975

From as early as 1952, Arnulf Rainer developed a painting style typified by the nervous energy of the artistic process. His work on reproductions of…

Ernest Biéler, Femme en bleu (Woman in Blue), 1913

Ernest Biéler

Femme en bleu (Woman in Blue), 1913

Ernest Biéler’s dire financial situation forced him to leave Paris in 1892. He returned to Switzerland, yet happiness eluded him, whether in Geneva, where he…

Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite)

Sphinx Fath – Marie Stuart. Feuille du rouleau double face Le Réveillon avec toi (Sphinx-Fath – Mary Stuart. Sheet of double-sided roll Christmas Eve with You), 1950

Throughout her life, Aloïse was fascinated by needle and thread. Trained at the Professional Couture School in Lausanne, she made her dresses herself and was…

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…

Gustave Buchet , Sculpto-peinture – abstraite – (Sculpto-Painting – Abstract –), 1923–4

Gustave Buchet

Sculpto-peinture – abstraite – (Sculpto-Painting – Abstract –), 1923–4

In the early 1920s Gustave Buchet painted several flat-surfaced canvases, some of them tending towards abstraction. At the same time, he was involved in projects…

Louis Soutter, Où sont nos sens? (Where Are Our Senses?), between 1930 and 1937

Louis Soutter

Où sont nos sens? (Where Are Our Senses?), between 1930 and 1937

Soutter was interned in Ballaigues, where he suffered cruelly from the narrow confines of his existence. He adopted an ascetic way of living, forcing himself to…

Alfredo Jaar , Real Pictures, 1995-2007

Alfredo Jaar

Real Pictures, 1995-2007

Alfredo Jaar’s public interventions, installations, photographs and videos all explore the nature of images and our relationship to them. His work closely follows current events…

Esther Shalev-Gerz, White Out – Between Telling and Listening, 2002

Esther Shalev-Gerz

White Out – Between Telling and Listening, 2002

Esther Shalev-Gerz was born in Lithuania, brought up in Israel, and now lives in Paris. Her art explores the construction of individual and collective memories.…

Luciano Castelli , Haarzupfer (Hair Fleecing), 1973

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…

Tadeusz Kantor , Multipart, 1970

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.…

Alice Bailly, Les rythmiciennes (The Rhythmicians), 1918-1919

Alice Bailly

Les rythmiciennes (The Rhythmicians), 1918-1919

Published in 1918 by Albert Rheinwald, the first monograph on Bailly insists on the originality of her most recent work: ‘[B]efore our eyes wool becomes…

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…

Janos Urban , Construction n° 6, 1969

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…

Eduardo Arroyo , Robinson Crusoé, 1965

Eduardo Arroyo

Robinson Crusoé, 1965

The figure: a man dressed in animal skins, with rags wrapped around his feet and a Tyrolean style hat with feathers on his head. His…

Maurice Utrillo, Paysage, Corse (Landscape, Corsica), 1913

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…

Gustave Buchet , Danseuse en mouvement (Dancer in Motion), 1918

Gustave Buchet

Danseuse en mouvement (Dancer in Motion), 1918

Trained at the École des beaux-arts in Geneva, Gustave Buchet first stayed in Paris in winter 1910. In 1915 he was in Geneva as cofounder…

Charles Blanc-Gatti , Suite bergamasque de Debussy (Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque), c. 1930

Charles Blanc-Gatti

Suite bergamasque de Debussy (Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque), c. 1930

In 1911 Charles Blanc-Gatti moved to Paris, then in a state of artistic effervescence, where he worked as a draughtsman. After a period working in…

Louis Soutter, Avril (April), between 1923 and 1930

Louis Soutter

Avril (April), between 1923 and 1930

Soutter was fifty-two years old when he was interned against his will in 1923. This mature and extremely cultivated man was about to produce a…

Albert Marquet, Notre-Dame, temps de neige (Notre Dame under Snow), c. 1914

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…

Gustave Courbet, Le vieil arbre dans la gorge (The Old Tree in the Gorge), 1871

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…

Eugène Grasset, Affiche pour une exposition d’art décoratif français à la Grafton Gallery de Londres (Poster for an Exhibition of French Decorative Art at the Grafton Gallery, London), 1893

Eugène Grasset

Affiche pour une exposition d’art décoratif français à la Grafton Gallery de Londres (Poster for an Exhibition of French Decorative Art at the Grafton Gallery, London), 1893

Eugène Grasset made his first forays into poster design in the mid-1880s and soon acquired an excellent reputation, working both commercially and for publishers as…

François Bocion, Filets et pêcheurs (Nets and Fishermen), c. 1877

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…

Constantin Meunier , Le marteleur (The Drop Forger), 1886

Constantin Meunier

Le marteleur (The Drop Forger), 1886

Following his academic training, Meunier attended classes given by the Belgian sculptor Louis Jéhotte, an admirer of Greek art, before taking up painting, a medium…

Inconnu [Suisse occidentale], Sainte Anne enseignant la Vierge (Saint Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read), c. 1550-1580

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…

Eugène Burnand, La prière sacerdotale (The Sacerdotal Prayer), 1900-1918

Eugène Burnand

La prière sacerdotale (The Sacerdotal Prayer), 1900-1918

When, at the turn of the twentieth century, Burnand dreamed of excelling at high art, it was religious art that he had in mind. Where…

Edgar Degas, Danseuse s’avançant, les bras levés, jambe droite en avant (deuxième étude) (Dancer Stepping Forward, her Arms Raised, Right Leg Forward [second study]), c. 1885–90

Edgar Degas

Danseuse s’avançant, les bras levés, jambe droite en avant (deuxième étude) (Dancer Stepping Forward, her Arms Raised, Right Leg Forward [second study]), c. 1885–90

Ballet dancers training, resting or performing on stage were a major motif in Edgar Degas’ oeuvre from the early 1870s to his death. He often…

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