The Swiss Fine Art Sale

François Bocion

Le repas des cygnes, 1883

Lot Closed

June 15, 01:25 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

François Bocion

1828 - 1890

Le repas des cygnes, 1883

Oil on canvas

Signed and dated lower right

47 x 33.5 cm (unframed); 69.4 x 54.7 cm (framed)

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Michel Reymondin.

Sotheby's, Zurich, 21^st June 1984
Private collection, Lausanne
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, François Bocion, 1828-1890, 1990-1991, no. 116, p. 194, ill.

Michel Reymondin, Catalogue raisonné de François Bocion, Wormer, 1989, no. 114, p. 53, ill.

A roebuck

Estimate: 100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lassitude

Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Vertumnus and Pomona

Estimate: 25,000 - 35,000 GBP

River landscape with travellers and cattle, a town beyond

Estimate: 25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Bust of Antonio Canova

Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 GBP

A military encampment with troops at rest (La Paix); The departure of the troops (La Guerre)

Estimate: 150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Ships offshore in a calm with figures on a jetty, with a ship firing a salute

Estimate: 12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Christ Bearing the Cross

Estimate: 300,000 - 400,000 GBP

A pair of Mediterranean coastal scenes: Dawn with a capriccio of a Roman temple; Evening with a French ship and a Roman gateway

Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Peasants making music and disporting in a wooded river landscape

Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 GBP