Lot 3013 - A187 Swiss Art - Friday, 07. December 2018, 02.00 PM
ERNEST BIÉLER
(Rolle 1863–1948 Lausanne)
Valais woman with prayer book. 1923.
Tempera on paper on cardboard.
Signed and dated centre left: ERNEST BIELER 23.
44 x 21 cm.
Ethel Mathier will include this work in the Ernest Biéler catalogue raisonné.
Provenance:
- Frédéric Fehlmann, Lausanne (1929).
- Swiss private collection.
Exhibited:
Rivaz 1929, Exposition Ernest Biéler, Le Monteiller-Rivaz, 15.–30.6.1929, exh. cat as "La vieille Marguerite".
Literature:
O mein Heimatland. Schweizerische Kunst- und Literaturchronik, 1925, ill. p. 184/185, as "Walliserin".
CHF 50 000 / 80 000 | (€ 51 550 / 82 470)
Sold for CHF 102 500 (including buyer’s premium)
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