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PROPERTY FROM A SWISS CORPORATE COLLECTION

Giovanni Giacometti
WINTER BEI ST. MORITZ, 1916
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300,000 — 500,000
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LOT SOLD. 375,000 CHF
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PROPERTY FROM A SWISS CORPORATE COLLECTION

Giovanni Giacometti
WINTER BEI ST. MORITZ, 1916
Estimate
Dagger
Normal VAT rules apply and the standard rate of VAT will be charged on both hammer price and premium. In France the reduced rate is applied where the item is defined as a book for VAT purposes. In Australia GST is charged at the standard rate on both hammer price and premium.
300,000 — 500,000
CHF
LOT SOLD. 375,000 CHF
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Details & Cataloguing

Swiss Art/Swiss Made

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Giovanni Giacometti
1868 - 1933
WINTER BEI ST. MORITZ, 1916
Signed with the artist's initials and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
101 x 110,5 cm
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Provenance

Collection Willy Russ-Young, Serrieres
Private collection, Switzerland
Sothebys Zurich, 27th May 2008, lot 91
Private collection, Switzerland
Corporate collection, Switzerland (by descent to the present owner)

Exhibited

Probably Chur, Kunsthaus, Graubünden in der Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1954, no. 34 (Winter im Engadin)

Literature

Paul Müller/Viola Radlach, Giovanni Giacometti, 1868-1933, Werkkatalog der Gemälde, Zurich 1997, vol II-2, no. 1916.54, ill.

Catalogue Note

Über die vordergründigen tiefverschneiten Hänge ziehen sich vereinzelte Skispuren. Im Bildhintergrund erhebt sich imposant der Piz La Margna. Die eindrücklich in Szene gesetzte weisse Arena bei Salastrains oberhalb von St. Moritz ist ein eindrücklicher Beweis für die malerische Meisterschaft des Koloristen Giovanni Giacometti. Giacometti erzeugt in diesem Bild ein grandioses, fein abgestimmtes Licht- und Farberlebnis.  

Giacometti offers a grandiose experience of his mastery of colour and light in this landscape depicting the deep snow-covered slopes of Salastrains above St.Moritz with the Piz Margna in the background.

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