Anish Kapoor Untitled, 2002 Born in India to a cosmopolitan family, with an atheist father from a Hindu background and an Iraqi Jewish mother, Anish Kapoor initially planned to…
Marcel Broodthaers Tour de Babel (Tower of Babel), 1966 Marcel Broodthaers’s career was as prolific as it was brief, giving rise to books, films, photographs, sculptures, objects, drawings and installations, among others. His career…
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…
Giuseppe Penone Svolgere la propria pelle (Pressione su carta)(Developing your own Skin [Pressure on Paper]), 1974 In the early 1970s, Giuseppe Penone, the youngest member of Arte povera, then just twenty-five, developed a series of works that literally involved him lying…
Thomas Huber Studio II, 1991 Thomas Huber studied at the Basel Kunstgewerbeschule, the Royal College of Art in London and the Düsseldorf Staatliche Kunstakademie He now lives and works in…
Louis Soutter Souplesse (Suppleness), 1939 Two frantic figures cross the space from right to left, parallel to the picture plane, beating a repetitive rhythm with their feet while their waving…
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…
Louise Breslau Portrait de Mlle Julie Feurgard (Sous les pommiers)(Portrait of Mlle Julie Feurgard [Under the Apple Trees]), 1886 Louise Breslau from Zurich was already more than two years into an existential and artistic crisis when she painted this portrait in 1886. She had…
Stephan Balkenhol Phoque I et II (Seal I and II), 1989 After visiting documenta 5 in 1972 while in his teens, Stephan Balkenhol decided to become a sculptor. He then studied at Hamburg Hochschule für Bildende…
Pierre Soulages Peinture 324 x 362 cm (Polyptyque J)(Painting 324 x 362 cm [Polyptych J]), 1987 Following a period of dark shapes standing out against pale backgrounds, Pierre Soulages’s work became increasingly dominated by black, creating powerful contrasts. In a 1990…
Bruce Nauman Partial Truth, 1997 One of Bruce Nauman’s best-known early works is a neon spiral incorporating the words The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (1967),…
Louis Ducros Orage nocturne à Cefalù (Night Storm at Cefalù), vers 1800-1805 After nearly twenty years in Rome, during which he achieved great renown, Louis Ducros was forced to leave the city in 1793, due to measures…
On display Giovanni Giacometti Nature morte aux livres (Still Life with Books), vers 1907-1908 After studying applied arts in Munich, Giovanni Giacometti left for Paris in 1888 with his friend Cuno Amiet to further his artistic education. However, his…
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…
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…
Hyacinthe Rigaud Marie d’Orléans, duchesse de Nemours, 1705 With his contemporary Nicolas de Largillierre, Hyacinthe Rigaud dominated the market for formal portraits in France during the first decades of the eighteenth century. He…
William Kentridge Lexicon, Paragraph I, 2017 William Kentridge grew up in a South Africa marked by the apartheid regime (1948–91). Having studied theatre as well as the fine arts, but also…
Jean-Luc Manz Les pleurs de cendres IV (Tears of Ashes IV), 1996 Jean-Luc Manz’s work follows a particular, indeed unique path through the geometrical abstraction movement that developed in and around Geneva and Lausanne from the 1980s…
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…
Alice Bailly Le concert dans le jardin (Concert in a Garden), 1920 As a Swiss citizen, Alice Bailly was forced to leave Paris during the First World War and struggled to make a living in Geneva. Most…
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…
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…
Félix Vallotton La chambre rouge (The Red Room), 1898 Félix Vallotton attained recognition in the 1890s with his woodcuts, and in particular with his Intimités series, ten scenes from the private life (intimité) of…
Auguste Rodin L’Homme au serpent (Man with Snake), 1887 This sculpture could have been inspired by Dante’s description of the damned fighting with snakes, as here, in Canto XXV of the Inferno: ‘As we…
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