Lot 43
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Ernest Biéler

Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 CHF
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Description

  • Ernest Biéler
  • Esquisse pour l'eau mystérieuse
  • signed and titled
    This painting comes with the artist's original frame.
  • pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper
  • 29 x 65 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Vaud
Sotheby's, Zurich, 27th November 2007, lot 7
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Savièse, Maison de commune de Savièse, Ernest Biéler (1863-1948) - Rétrospective du cinquantenaire, 1998/99, no. 39
Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts/Solothurn, Kunstmuseum, Ernest Biéler (1863-9148). Du réalisme à l'Art nouveau/Ernest Biéler (1863-1948), 1999/2000, no. 105
Berne, Kunstmuseum/Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Geträumte Wirklichkeit/Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Réalité rêvée, 2011/2012, no. 63

Literature

Ernest Biéler (1868-1948) - Rétrospective du cinquantenaire, exhibition catalogue, Savièse 1998, p. 40, ill. (in colour)
Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Du réalisme à l'Art nouveau/Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Vom Realismus zum Jugenstil, exhibition catalogue, Milano/Lausanne 1999, p. 74, no. 44, ill. (in colour)
Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Geträumte Wirklichkeit/Ernest Biéler (1863-1948). Réalité rêvée, Berne 2011, no. 63, p. 147, ill. (in colour)

Condition

Work not unframed. Scratch of ca. 7 cm visible along the frame on the lower right margin probably from the artists time. Small scuff on the upper right edge and one pinhole. Three pinholes in the lower left corner. A small pinhole on the upper left corner. Slight discoloration of the surface. Very good condition.
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