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Lot 3106* - A205 Swiss Art - Friday, 23. June 2023, 02.00 PM

CUNO AMIET

(Solothurn 1868–1961 Oschwand)
Small nude (Buchsi Greti). 1916.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated lower right: CA 16.
Inscribed on the stretcher on the reverse: C. Amiet: Kleiner Akt 1916.
103 × 53 cm.

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Provenance:
- Collection of Ferdinand Zurlinden, Aarau, 1918;
- With Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 29.11.1952, lot 2446;
- Sale Galerie Villa Ulmberg, Zurich, 23.10.1980, lot 155;
- With Galerie Klopfer, Zurich, 10.7.1984, lot 349.
- Kurt Huber, Villa Ulmberg, Zurich, 14.11.1985, lot 1.
- Sale Auktionshaus Zofingen, 7.6.1991, lot 1262.
- Private collection, Switzerland, 1996.
- Sale Koller Auctions, Zurich, 3.12.2010, lot 3071.
- Private collection, acquired at the above auction.

Exhibited:
Zurich 1917, Exhibition 6 May to 3 June 1917, Kunsthaus Zurich, 6.5.-6.6.1917, no. 62, as "Kleiner Akt".

Source:
Cuno Amiet: Katalogisierte Bilder (handwritten catalogue raisonné).

Literature:
Franz Müller and Viola Radlach: Cuno Amiet. Die Gemälde 1883-1919, pub. by Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zurich 2014, vol. II, p. 479, no. 1916.23 (with ill.).

Cuno Amiet's handwritten catalogue shows that the model is Anna Amiet's niece, Greti Morgenthaler. She is depicted in a brightly lit studio with several paintings in the background.


CHF 20 000 / 30 000 | (€ 20 620 / 30 930)

Sold for CHF 27 140 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.