5.1 MILLION SWISS FRANCS FOR A FERDINAND HODLER LAKE VIEW
1.3 MILLION CHF FOR A HODLER PORTRAIT BY CUNO AMIET
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR MARIANNE VON WEREFKIN
Auctions in Zurich, 17 – 21 June 2024
Cuno Amiet’s portrait of Ferdinand Hodler, the result of a meeting of two Swiss artist icons, commissioned by the important Swiss collector Oscar Miller, realised a price commensurate with its importance in Swiss art history at Koller’s Swiss Art auction on 21 June. A prolonged bidding battle for this masterpiece, a second version of which is in the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, was finally won by a collector in western Switzerland for five times its lower estimate, CHF 1.35 million (lot 3029, estimate CHF 250 000 / 400 000).
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