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Edgar Degas, Femme se frottant le dos avec une éponge, torse (Woman Scrubbing her Back with a Sponge, Torso, 1880s-1890s

Edgar Degas

Femme se frottant le dos avec une éponge, torse (Woman Scrubbing her Back with a Sponge, Torso, 1880s-1890s

When Edgar Degas died on September 27, 1917, some hundred and fifty sculptures, for the most part in wax and clay, were found in his…

François Morellet, Décrochage no 4 (Coming Undone n. 4), 2005

François Morellet

Décrochage no 4 (Coming Undone n. 4), 2005

Despite the severe, bare appearance of his artistic language, François Morellet shows great invention and humour in his approach to geometrical abstraction. After a short…

Karim Noureldin, Evo, 2011

Karim Noureldin

Following a period in which he created pencil drawings on very large sheets of paper or on a multitude of small sheets covering a given…

Didier Rittener, Après tout (After All), 2011

Didier Rittener

Après tout (After All), 2011

Didier Rittener has spent nearly twenty years building an archive of images. He copies faces, patterns, textual fragments, works of art, and landscapes onto A4…

Yael Bartana, Tashlikh (Cast Off), 2017

Yael Bartana

Tashlikh (Cast Off), 2017

Yael Bartana shot her first videos at the turn of the millennium, and has since built a body of work that shifts between a documentary…

Valérie Favre, Selfportrait after Hugo Ball, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (1916), IV, 2016-2017

Valérie Favre

Selfportrait after Hugo Ball, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (1916), IV, 2016-2017

Valérie Favre's series Make-up depicts the artist herself as characters from famous paintings or photographs. From Giorgio de Chirico's Seer (1915, New York, The Museum…

Valérie Favre, Crystal Palace, 2014-2016

Valérie Favre

Crystal Palace, 2014-2016

Before devoting herself to the visual arts in the 1980s, Valérie Favre worked as a theatre actress in Geneva and Paris. After a brief stab…

Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, dit), Le Roi des chats (The King of Cats), 1935

Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, dit)

Le Roi des chats (The King of Cats), 1935

Balthus’s self-portraits depict him with a series of assumed identities in which he never drops his mask. This 1935 portrait shows him standing in an…

Hans Sandreuter, Abend (Evening), 1900

Hans Sandreuter

Abend (Evening), 1900

Hans Sandreuter received academic training in Munich, having travelled there in 1873 on the recommendation of his compatriot Arnold Böcklin. He later followed Böcklin to…

Claudia Comte, Turn and Slip 120, 4/4, Turn and Slip 40, 1/4 et Turn and Slip 60, 4/4, 2015

Claudia Comte

Turn and Slip 120, 4/4, Turn and Slip 40, 1/4 et Turn and Slip 60, 4/4, 2015

Claudia Comte revisits the history of forms, with references ranging from sculpture of the first half of the twentieth century (Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Barbara…

Francis Gruber, Nu dans l’atelier (Nude in the Studio), 1944

Francis Gruber

Nu dans l’atelier (Nude in the Studio), 1944

In 1944, the fate of Paris still hung on the uncertain outcome of the Second World War. That year, Francis Gruber painted his favourite model,…

Plinio Nomellini , Polifonia, 1905

Plinio Nomellini

Polifonia, 1905

Plinio Nomellini learned to master the art of capturing light in paint when studying fine art in Florence with Giovanni Fattori, a member of the…

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Caravane passant près des colosses de Memnon. Thèbes (Caravan Passing the Colossi of Memnon, Thebes), 1856

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Caravane passant près des colosses de Memnon. Thèbes (Caravan Passing the Colossi of Memnon, Thebes), 1856

Following Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798, Egypt was a source of fascination for scholars, scientists and artists throughout the nineteenth century. When Jean-Léon Gérôme…

Miriam Cahn, Morgen Grauen, 1981

Miriam Cahn

Morgen Grauen, 1981

Miriam Cahn began specialising in drawing from the outset of her career. The medium allowed her to break free from the purely technical skills she…

Vincent Kohler, Vintage Drums Ensemble, 2004

Vincent Kohler

Vintage Drums Ensemble, 2004

Vincent Kohler appropriates familiar objects and takes them as far as his imagination will carry him, towards popular culture and, sometimes, childhood. He oversizes and…

Félix Vallotton, Les Affiches lumineuses. Dessin pour Les Rassemblements (Brightly Lit Posters. Drawing for Les Rassemblements), 1895/1902-1903

Félix Vallotton

Les Affiches lumineuses. Dessin pour Les Rassemblements (Brightly Lit Posters. Drawing for Les Rassemblements), 1895/1902-1903

In the autumn of 1895, Félix Vallotton produced a series of thirty drawings for Badauderies parisiennes. Les Rassemblements. Physiologies de la rue (A Study of…

Thomas Hirschhorn, Swiss Army Knife, 1998

Thomas Hirschhorn

Swiss Army Knife, 1998

In 1984, Thomas Hirschhorn moved from Switzerland to Paris, where he still lives today, in order to join Grapus, a graphics collective with roots in…

Christoph Gossweiler, Peinture, vert olive (Painting, Olive Green), 2008

Christoph Gossweiler

Peinture, vert olive (Painting, Olive Green), 2008

A self-taught painter, Christoph Gossweiler began his career in the mid-1970s, adopting the practice of seriality that played an important role, especially in minimalist art…

Francis Baudevin, Sans titre (Talens) (Untitled [Talens]), 2008/2010

Francis Baudevin

Sans titre (Talens) (Untitled [Talens]), 2008/2010

Since 1987, Francis Baudevin has been producing a referential form of geometrical abstraction. He postulates that it is impossible to create even abstract art without…

David Hominal , Flowers, 2006

David Hominal

David Hominal mixes images from different sources and references with different arts and pictorial traditions in order to take on the great narratives of painting,…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Paris. Grand roman inédit par Émile Zola. Supplément gratuit du Journal (Paris. Brand new novel by Émile Zola. Free supplement for Le Journal), 1897

Like Félix Vallotton, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen was a Swiss artist who moved to Paris, where he regularly used the illustrated press as an outlet for his…

Silvie Defraoui, Plis et replies (Folds and Re-Folds), 2002

Silvie Defraoui

Plis et replies (Folds and Re-Folds), 2002

Silvie Defraoui studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers and then ceramics at the École des arts décoratifs in Geneva. After a…

Félix Vallotton, Les toits, rue Mérimée (Rooftops, rue Mérimée), vers 1903

Félix Vallotton

Les toits, rue Mérimée (Rooftops, rue Mérimée), vers 1903

In the spring of 1903, Félix Vallotton and his family moved into an elegant town house at 59, rue des Belles-Feuilles, in the chic 16th…

Ferdinand Hodler, Étude pour Unanimité (Study for Unanimity), 1911/1912

Ferdinand Hodler

Étude pour Unanimité (Study for Unanimity), 1911/1912

The development of a Swiss national art policy in the 1880s and 1890s led to numerous government commissions for important buildings. Paradoxically, the polemic that…

Albert Marquet, Les deux pêcheurs à Naples (Two Anglers in Naples), 1911

Albert Marquet

Les deux pêcheurs à Naples (Two Anglers in Naples), 1911

1905 marked the beginning of what Albert Marquet's wife Marcelle referred to as his ‘travelling period’. The artist, whose works generate a sense of quiet…

Robert Breer, Sky Chief, 1955

Robert Breer

Sky Chief, 1955

Robert Breer began his career as a painter after studying at Stanford University, near San Francisco, in 1949. That same year he moved to Paris…

Don Hazlitt , Grave, 1997

Don Hazlitt

Don Hazlitt worked on this painting while staying at the Nota Bene art residency in Cadaqués, Spain, in 1996. It is one of a series…

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