IMPRESSIONIST
& MODERN ART
Great names from art history invariably attract attention on the art market. In 2025, our Impressionist & Modern Art department was able to place a remarkable work by Paul Cézanne with a buyer in Germany. The small-format painting ‘L’après-midi à Naples’, dating from 1876/77, addresses the myth of the Bacchanal, which the artist combines with a scene of bourgeois everyday life. The work belongs to a small group of erotic compositions in which Cézanne responded to Édouard Manet’s ‘Olympia’, a painting that had been perceived as scandalous at the time.
PAUL
CÉZANNE
L‘après-midi à Naples
ou Le punch au rhum.
1876/77. Oil on canvas,
14.7 × 24 cm.
Sold for CHF 570 000
to Germany
Interest was undoubtedly sparked not only by the quality of the work itself, but also by its provenance: the first owner was the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who devoted a groundbreaking exhibition to Cézanne in 1895 – an exhibition visited by Picasso, Matisse and Braque. The intimate scene, executed in Cézanne’s distinctive manner, sold for CHF 570 000 to a private collector.
ALBERTO
GIACOMETTI
Alberto Giacometti. Composition, c. 1926/27.
Bronze, dark brown patina. Cast 1991. 2/8.
67.1 × 43.7 × 39.9 cm. © Succession Alberto
Giacometti / 2025, ProLitteris, Zurich
Sold for CHF 410 000
to the USA
LOUIS
VALTAT
Dahlias, cruche verte, 1942.
Oil on canvas, 92 × 73 cm.
Sold for CHF 320 000
to Western Switzerland
GUSTAVE
LOISEAU
Gustave Loiseau. Les peupliers au
bord de la rivière.
1899. Oil on canvas, 71 × 92 cm.
Sold for CHF 400 000
to Germany
CONTACT FOR
ENQUIRIES AND
CONSIGNMENTS:
JARA KOLLER
Head of DepartmentImpressionist & Modern Art
jara.koller@kollerauktionen.com
+41 44 445 63 08