Lot 36
  • 36

Ernest Biéler

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 CHF
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Description

  • Ernest Biéler
  • Jour de fête, 1923
  • signed and dated
    This painting comes with the artist's original frame. 
  • tempera on cardboard
  • 45 x 36 cm

Provenance

Arthur Waeffler, Basel (later Evian-les-Bains)
Private collection, Switzerland

Literature

James Bolivar Manson, Ernest Biéler. Peintre suisse, Lausanne 1936, Pl. XXXIX

Condition

Not unframed. Stains of paint in the scarf mainly visible in the red colour. Minor mould in the black hair. Very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the upcoming catalogue raisonné by Ethel Mathier.

Ethel Mathier wird diese Arbeit in den Oeuvrekatalog Ernest Biéler aufnehmen.