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Lot 3036 - A195 Swiss Art - Friday, 04. December 2020, 02.00 PM

FÉLIX VALLOTTON

(Lausanne 1865–1925 Paris)
Baigneuse aux mouettes. 1919.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right: F. VALLOTTON. 19.
61 × 46 cm.

Provenance:
- Galerie Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris, 1925, acquired directly from the artist.
- Collection of Pierre Namin, Nice.
- Parisian private collection.
- Sotheby's auction, Zurich, 10.12.1996, Lot 130.
- Swiss private collection.

Exhibited:
- Paris 1928, Exposition rétrospective d'œuvres inédites de Félix Vallotton (1865–1925), Galerie Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris, 9.–30.3.1928.
- Zurich 1938, Félix Vallotton 1965–1925, Kunsthaus, Zürich, 11.11.–14.12.1938, No. 154, as "Nu de dos, eau verte".
- Paris 1955, Félix Vallotton, Maison de la pensée française, Paris, April to June 1955, No. 47, as "Baigneuse de dos, falaise et mouettes".
- Munich and Essen 1995–96, Félix Vallotton, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 25.8.–5.11.1995 and Folkwang Museum, Essen, 26.11.1995–18.2.1996, No. 99.

Sources:
Félix Vallotton: Livre de raison. Liste de mes oeuvres, peintures et gravures, faite dans l'ordre chronologique, à partir de 1885, No. 1258: "Baigneuse de dos, les bras rassemblés sur la poitrine, ciel bleu vert foncé, eau verte, falaise et mouettes (T 12 P)".

Literature:
- Charles Fegdal: Félix Vallotton, Maîtres de l'art moderne, vol 34., 1931, pl. 46, as "Baigneuse aux oiseaux".
- Marina Ducrey: Félix Vallotton (1865–1925). L’œuvre peint. Catalogue raisonné, Zurich and Lausanne 2005, vol. III, p. 722, No. 1327 (with ill.).


CHF 70 000 / 100 000 | (€ 72 160 / 103 090)

Sold for CHF 183 300 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.