Alain Huck Sans titre (Untitled), 1989 Alain Huck studied at the École cantonale d'art in Lausanne from 1982 and 1986, where he was influenced by the néo-géo school and by his…
Louis Ducros Le marchand de fritures (The Fried Food Vendor), 1782 In Rome, bustling street scenes featuring contemporaries in local costume became an increasingly successful genre in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Popular with…
Sophie Calle The Sleepers (Antoine Gonthier, Twentieth Sleeper, and Patrice X., Twenty-First Sleeper), 1979 Propped up on a bolster and a pile of pillows and tucked under warm blankets, fourteen-year-old Patrice X. is smiling timidly at the photographer. His…
Maurice Denis Baigneuses (Bathers) or Plage au petit temple (Petit Temple Beach), 1906 Displayed at the 1906 Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts and acquired in 1907 by Eugène Boch, the brother of the famous Belgian painter…
On display Markus Raetz Nichtrauch/Non-fumée (Notsmoke), 1990-1992 Markus Raetz’s drawings, engravings and sculptures play with the viewer’s visual perception: shapes are unveiled or they shift before our very eyes as we move…
Sophie Calle Le Major Davel (Major Davel), 1994 Sophie Calle's work from the 1990s often stages works of art missing from museums for various reasons. Her 1991 Last Seen... series, for instance, referenced…
René Auberjonois Nature morte aux fourchettes (Still Life with Forks), 1953 In his final years, René Auberjonois rose to international fame at the 1948 Venice Biennale and the 1955 Kassel Documenta. His unwavering commitment to figurative…
René Auberjonois La route valaisanne (Road in the Valais), 1940 - 1941 René Auberjonois first stayed in the Valais in 1902 and was stunned by the ‘great spectacle of the landscapes’. His life soon acquired a pendulum…
Eric Fischl Untitled (Dog) (from the series Four Aquatints), 1989 A woman is bending over, reaching for something we cannot see, while a dog watches her from a slight distance. The two protagonists seem to…
Richard Tuttle The Baroque and Color VII, 1986-1987 Although often associated with the post-minimalist tendency, Richard Tuttle is in fact one of the most disconcerting and hard to pin-down American artists of the…
On display Günter Brus Der Stillschweigbefehl (Order to Remain Silent), 1988 In the 1960s, Günter Brus, a recent Fine Art graduate, joined the Viennese Actionist school, one of the most radical, protest-driven art movements of the…
Arnulf Rainer Ohne Titel (Face Farces) [Untitled (Face Farces)], 1969 Arnulf Rainer created the first of his Übermalungen (overpaintings) in 1952, covering reproductions of art works with paint; to the point of making them in…
Michio Yoshihara P-21, 1966 Michio Yoshihara was the son of Jirō Yoshihara, the art theorist behind the group Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai (Association for Concrete Art) (1954-1972), which he founded…
Yoshishige Saito Peinture (Painting), 1963 Yoshishige Saito, like his contemporary Jirō Yoshihara, played a pivotal role in developing abstract art in Japan. He began painting as a teen, discovering an…
Félix Vallotton Le grand nuage (The Great Cloud), 1900 Félix Vallotton and his wife Gabrielle spent the summer of 1900 in the chateau of La Naz in Romanel, overlooking Lausanne. The views over the…
On display Francesco da Rimini Naissance de la Vierge (The Birth of the Virgin), c. 1320–30 This representation of the birth of the Virgin bathes in the universality of the divine presence manifested by the gold ground. At the centre, we…
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (L'Aîné) Étude pour le Retour des jeunes mariés (Study for the Homecoming), 1881 In 1898, the Swiss-born artist Benjamin Vautier died in Düsseldorf, where he had spent most of his career. He was feted by the media as…
Léo-Paul Robert Étude pour La Justice élève les nations (Study for Righteousness Exalteth a Nation), 1901 Léo-Paul Robert, a native of Neuchâtel, was born into a family of painters including his father Aurèle and his uncle Léopold. He studied in Munich…
Emile David Polyphème (Polyphemus), between 1860 and 1870 Only in the early seventeenth century did landscape painting become a noted genre in its own right in Rome, when vedute, or topographical views, became…
Charles Gleyre Les Romains passant sous le joug (Romans Passing under the Yoke) or La bataille du Léman (The Battle of Léman), 1858 Charles Gleyre’s republican convictions explain his enthusiastic acceptance of a commission from the radical new government in his native Canton of Vaud. He was asked…
On display Charles Gleyre Femme turque (Dudo Narikos) [Turkish woman (Dudo Narikos)], 1840 On his return to Paris in 1838 after a lengthy journey in the Mediterranean in the pay of the American John Lowell Jr., Charles Gleyre…
On display Luca Giordano Le jugement de Salomon (The Judgement of Solomon), c. 1670–85 This painting illustrates an episode in the Old Testament. Two prostitutes, who had given birth at the same moment, both claim to be the mother…
Charles Gleyre Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), between 1830 and 1834 Charles Gleyre was a modest, reserved, shy man who rarely painted himself. He found his prominent nose and fleshy lips unattractive and only painted three…
Félix Vallotton La paresse (Idleness), 1896 By 1900, Vallotton was renowned in Paris as one of the major protagonists in the revival of printmaking. He had begun making drypoint works and…
Albert Welti Portrait de famille (Family Portrait), 1904 A number of features in this family portrait reflect the influence of the Northern Old Masters, including the historiated frame carved by the artist himself,…
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein Portrait de Nicolas Châtelain, c. 1800–10 Nicolas Châtelain and Johann Friedrich August Tischbein – the model and his painter – both belonged to grand dynasties. Châtelain, the son of a pastor,…
On display Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours Le tremblement de terre (The Earthquake), 1806 Trained in Paris in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien, Saint-Ours set up in Rome in 1780. In 1792 he returned to Geneva to fight for…
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