Maurice Denis Moscou (Couvent Novodievitchi, la tour rose) (Moscow, the Novodevichy Convent, the Pink Tower), 1909 The Russian school, long dominated by The Itinerants, opened up to Western art at the dawn of the twentieth century. Groups and reviews influenced by…
Charles Gleyre L'Exécution du Major Davel (The Execution of Major Davel), 1850 This work, the most monumental of all Charles Gleyre's paintings, was commissioned at the behest of Marc-Louis Arlaud, who founded the Museum in 1841. He…
Jacques Sablet Scène de la vie romaine or La Joueuse de harpe (Scene from Roman Life or The Harpist), between 1787 and 1789 After settling in Rome, the Swiss artist Jacques Sablet turned away from history painting and spent the late 1780s building his reputation as a genre…
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (L'Aîné) Paysans au musée or À l'exposition (Peasants at the Museum or At the Axhibition), 1867 Marc Vautier, a native of the Vaud, had been a successful artist in Düsseldorf for fifteen years when he painted this work. He specialised in…
René Auberjonois Grand nu couché or Nu étendu avec chien (Large reclining nude or Nude reclining with dog), 1922/1923 On September 30, 1923, the poet Gustave Roud described René Auberjonois in La Gazette de Lausanne as an unfairly overlooked master of ‘pure painting’, adding…
Maurice de Vlaminck La Neige à Auvers (Snow in Auvers), circa 1924 Maurice de Vlaminck caused a scandal at the 1905 autumn salon in Paris with Henri Matisse and André Derain for canvases that combined colours at…
Félix Vallotton Nature morte aux glaïeuls (Still Life With Gladioli), 1924 ‘I am deep in a still life, the ordinary expedient of bad days, but by applying myself I manage to save the day. [...] I…
Eugène Grasset Calendrier de La Belle Jardinière. Les Mois. Juillet (Calendar for La Belle Jardinière. The Months. July), 1896 In 1896, Eugène Grasset was commissioned by the La Belle Jardinière clothing boutique to produce a calendar. He showed the original watercolours at the Société…
Charles Despiau Buste de Madame André Derain (Bust of Madame André Derain), 1926 Charles Despiau studied fine art in Paris and was then hired by Auguste Rodin to work in his studio from 1907 to 1914. Seeing himself…
Philippe Decrauzat Stone, Notes, Tones, 2014 Philippe Decrauzat has built a body of work on processes of visual and auditory perceptions that he transposes into geometric compositions combining references to abstract…
Taus Makhacheva 4’224,92 cm2 de Degas, 2020 Taus Makhacheva's performances, installations and videos are often inspired by stories heard, imagined, or witnessed by the artist herself. She explores the grand narratives of…
Renée Green ED/HF, 2017 The film ED/HF – Extraterritorial Durations/Harun Farocki in full – can be read as a combined portrait of Green herself and of Harun Farocki. The…
Julian Charrière We Are All Astronauts, 2013 We Are All Astronauts is one of the first works Julian Charrière completed after studying with Olafur Eliasson at Berlin's Institut für Raumexperimente in 2013.…
Luc Andrié 2008 (14) (from the series L’homme blanc n’a plus de peau [The white man no longer has a skin]), 2008 At private performances in his studio, Luc Andrié, dressed only in underpants or wearing a ridiculous military cap, plays roles and recreates attitudes observed elsewhere,…
Félix Vallotton Les saules (Willows), 1900 Having spent the best part of three years working on his engraving skills and developing the Nabi aesthetic in nudes and genre scenes, Félix Vallotton's…
On display Louise Breslau La vie pensive (Pensive Life), 1908 The strikingly monumental painting brings a highly Proustian tone to the tradition of Impressionist portraiture in the style of Edgar Degas and Henri Fantin-Latour. The…
On display Félix Vallotton Femme nue, rideau vert (Nude Woman, Green Curtain), 1897 Félix Vallotton's sensually posed Venus pudica, loosely clasping the veil that tantalisingly half-hides her lower body, is a solemn, cold, distant beauty. Her flesh, which…
Rembrandt Bugatti Braque et ses chiots (Pointer with puppies), circa 1904 Rembrandt Bugatti began sculpting animals as a young man, alongside his training in painting, decorating and cabinet-making in the Milan workshop run by his father,…
Gustave Buchet Composition, 1925 Working in Paris in the early 1920s, Gustave Buchet turned away from Futurism and joined the Section d'or, a group of artists who set out…
On display Gustave Buchet La tour (The Tower), 1927 Gustave Buchet's La tour verges on geometric abstraction. The artist, drawn by increasingly rigorous, austere, minimalistic compositions and ever flatter swathes of colour in his…
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Ouchy, près de Lausanne (Ouchy, near Lausanne, July 1842 From the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth, the dramatic, jagged profile of the Swiss Alps drew painters from around the world. Corot was…
Jean Crotti Igor, 2017 Jean Crotti left his literary studies at the University of Lausanne after a year to study fine art in Geneva from 1977-1979. Together with other…
Kiki Smith Rosary, 1994 The human body and its workings, representations, and social status are at the heart of the American artist Kiki Smith's art. Since the early 1980s,…
Édouard Vuillard Madame Vuillard cousant, rue Truffaut (Madame Vuillard Sewing, Rue Truffaut), c. 1900 Painted on a small piece of cardboard, this work dates from towards the end of Édouard Vuillard’s Nabi period and shows the living room of…
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Fontainebleau – Orage sur les plaines (Fontainebleau – Storm over the Plains), 1822 Seeing their son's determination to become a painter, Camille Corot's parents decided in 1821 to give him an annual income to let him try and…
Félix Vallotton Vases de Honfleur (Mudflats at Honfleur), 1917 Félix Vallotton's visits to Honfleur were seminal in the development of his composite landscapes. He also conducted further research in his Normandy studio, exploring ways…
Albert Marquet Lausanne et le lac (Lausanne and the Lake), 1936 On January 23, 1936, Paul Vallotton, founder of the Lausanne gallery of the same name, died while on the telephone to discuss a forthcoming exhibition…
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