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Albert Anker, Le Nouveau-né (The Newborn), 1867

Albert Anker

Le Nouveau-né (The Newborn), 1867

Albert Anker's charming painting of a family welcoming a new baby dates from the year his own son Ruedi was born. The tightly framed composition…

Félix Vallotton, La bibliothèque (The Bookcase), 1915

Félix Vallotton

La bibliothèque (The Bookcase), 1915

This painting of a woman choosing a book from a shelf is a far cry from Félix Vallotton's Nabi interiors featuring the everyday triumphs and…

Albert Bartholomé , L' Adieu à la vie ou Le Baiser (Farewell to life or The Kiss), 1903

Albert Bartholomé

L' Adieu à la vie ou Le Baiser (Farewell to life or The Kiss), 1903

After fighting in the Franco-Prussian war of 1871, Albert Bartholomé left the army and moved to Geneva to study art with Barthélémy Menn. By 1874,…

Albert Bartholomé , Florence Bartholomé, les yeux clos (Florence Bartholomé, eyes closed), 1919

Albert Bartholomé

Florence Bartholomé, les yeux clos (Florence Bartholomé, eyes closed), 1919

Albert Bartholomé's second wife, née Florence Letessier, proved a fresh source of artistic inspiration, sparking a new vision of womanhood that married the expression of…

Félix Vallotton, Bex, 1896

Félix Vallotton

Félix Vallotton began spending most of the year in Paris in the 1880s. He would return to Switzerland in the summer months, bringing small pieces…

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Vue du lac Léman et des Alpes (View of Lake Geneva and the Alps), 1879

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Vue du lac Léman et des Alpes (View of Lake Geneva and the Alps), 1879

The renowned architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc painted this watercolour the year he died, while he was working on the renovation of Lausanne cathedral. The lower half…

Giovanni Giacometti, Bestie da soma (Beasts of burden), vers 1895

Giovanni Giacometti

Bestie da soma (Beasts of burden), vers 1895

In April 1895, Giovanni Giacometti was working on an ambitious painting he planned to show at the fourth national exhibition in Geneva the following year.…

René Auberjonois , Ubu roi, 1935

René Auberjonois

René Auberjonois moved to Paris in October 1896. There, he may have attended the premier of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi, performed by the Théâtre…

Pierre Bonnard , Beau temps orageux (Fine Stormy Weather), 1910-1911

Pierre Bonnard

Beau temps orageux (Fine Stormy Weather), 1910-1911

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Provence and the Côte d'Azur proved a testing ground for modern art. Vincent Van Gogh described the region…

Jean Otth, Untitled, 1966

Jean Otth

Jean Otth studied Fine Art in Lausanne from 1961 to 1963. He then devoted his early career to painting, experimenting widely with form, seeking particularly…

Jorge Macchi , La luz (Light), 2015

Jorge Macchi

La luz (Light), 2015

Jorge Macchi's artworks use a variety of media and strategies to play with the viewer's perceptions. Flashes of light diffracted by a disco ball turn…

Denis Savary , Franz, 2019

Denis Savary

The early twenty-first century saw Denis Savary develop a body of work hybridising references gleaned from his immediate surroundings, art history, and pop culture. The…

Alain Huck, Pause, 2019-2020

Alain Huck

Pause, 2019-2020

Alain Huck explored a number of creative paths before settling on drawing in the early 1990s, choosing the medium for the fragility it brought to…

Miriam Cahn, Schiff, 1984

Miriam Cahn

Miriam Cahn completed a demanding graphic design course at the Basel Gewerbeschule from 1968 to 1973, finding freedom of expression in drawing with her eyes…

Sandrine Pelletier , The Deserted, 2015

Sandrine Pelletier

The Deserted, 2015

Sandrine Pelletier graduated in stage design from the Centre d’enseignement professionnel in Vevey in 1999 and in graphic design at the École cantonale d’art in…

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Le génie de Ludwig van Beethoven (The Spirit of Ludwig van Beethoven), circa 1906-1910

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

Le génie de Ludwig van Beethoven (The Spirit of Ludwig van Beethoven), circa 1906-1910

Beethoven was honoured as a quasi-divine figure as early as the ceremonies held to mark his funeral in 1827. For the Romantic generation, his extraordinarily…

Maria Eichhorn, Eichhörnchenkäfig (Squirrel cage), 2014

Maria Eichhorn

Eichhörnchenkäfig (Squirrel cage), 2014

Maria Eichhorn is a Berlin-based conceptual artist whose work incorporates social, economic, environmental and political aspects and who brings a critical gaze to bear on…

Denis Savary , Untitled, 2012

Denis Savary

Denis Savary initially became interested in video and drawing for their ‘practical and transportable’ side, as he explained in a 2016 interview. In the early…

Silvie Defraoui, Das Bild im Boden (The Picture in the Floor), 1986-2009

Silvie Defraoui

Das Bild im Boden (The Picture in the Floor), 1986-2009

Das Bild im Boden is a series of over one hundred works produced between 1986 and 2015 as part of the Archives du futur project,…

Auguste Renoir , Paysage du Midi (Landscape, Southern France), circa 1910 (?)

Auguste Renoir

Paysage du Midi (Landscape, Southern France), circa 1910 (?)

Auguste Renoir first saw Provence on his way back from a tour of Algeria and Italy in 1881-1882. He visited Paul Cézanne in the port…

Édouard Vuillard, Madame Hessel et Lulu à la porte-fenêtre (Madame Hessel and Lulu by the French Window), circa 1932

Édouard Vuillard

Madame Hessel et Lulu à la porte-fenêtre (Madame Hessel and Lulu by the French Window), circa 1932

This painting is one of Édouard Vuillard's late works. It is an example of the intimate works of the 1930s painted for the artist's own…

Silvie et Chérif Defraoui , Zénith, 1991

Silvie et Chérif Defraoui

Silvie and Chérif Defraoui began working together in 1975 on the long-term project Archives du futur, involving a range of techniques including installations, videos, and…

Alice Bailly, Le jardin rose (Pink Garden), 1907

Alice Bailly

Le jardin rose (Pink Garden), 1907

Alice Bailly moved from Geneva to Paris in 1906. She settled in rue Boissonade, a cul de sac that was already home to a number…

Félix Vallotton, Le Pharo, Marseille, 1901

Félix Vallotton

Le Pharo, Marseille, 1901

Félix Vallotton and his wife Gabrielle visited Marseilles in the latter half of January 1901, on their way to Cannes to see their friend, the…

Lynn Chadwick , Conjunction XII, 1970

Lynn Chadwick

Conjunction XII, 1970

Lynn Chadwick was a self-taught sculptor. The influence of his architecture studies before World War Two is clear in his early works, reflecting an interest…

Peter Emch, w.I.w.a.c., 1981

Peter Emch

w.I.w.a.c., 1981

Peter Emch studied graphic design in Biel/Bienne from 1960 to 1965, then worked in advertising in Paris and Zurich for a number of years. He…

Aimée Moreau , Nature morte (Still Life), 1975

Aimée Moreau

Nature morte (Still Life), 1975

After leaving school in Paris, Aimée Moreau studied art privately in the same city, devoting herself entirely to painting from the mid-1950s on. She has…

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