Lot 40
  • 40

Ernest Biéler

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 CHF
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ernest Biéler
  • Le gosse aux moutons, 1911
  • signed and dated
  • tempera on canvas laid down on wood
  • 30 x 27 cm

Provenance

Paul Niehans, La Tour-de-Peilz
Léopold Rey, Sion and La Roche
Private collection, Vaud
Sotheby's, Zurich, 27th November 2007, lot 9 
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Lausanne, Bâtiment Arlaud, Exposition E. Biéler, 1912, no. 6
Savièse, Maison de commune de Savièse, Ernest Biéler (1863-1948) - Rétrospective du cinquantenaire, 1998/99, no. 41
Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts/Solothurn, Kunstmuseum, Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Du réalisme à l'Art nouveau/Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Vom Realismus zum Jugendstil, 1999/2000, no. 117
Berne, Kunstmuseum/Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Geträumte Wirklichkeit/Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Réalité rêvée, Berne 2011/12, no. 72

Literature

Exposition E. Biéler, exhibition catalogue, Lausanne 1912, no. 6
Ernest Biéler (1868-1948) - Rétrospective du cinquantenaire, exhibition catalogue, Savièse 1998, p. 38, ill. (in colour)
Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Du réalisme à l'Art nouveau/Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Vom Realismus zum Jugendstil, 1999/2000, exhibition catalogue, Milano/Lausanne 1999, p. 53, no. 117, ill. (full page in colour)
Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Geträumte Wirklichkeit/Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Réalité rêvée, Berne 2011, no. 72, p. 165, ill. (in colour)

Condition

Not unframed. Paint loss in the hat and on the upper left quadrant. One hardly seen pinhole in the centre of the upper edge. 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.