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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 3, 2020 | Koller Auktionen | Zurich | SWISS ART | 3330* | $****** - ****** | Head study for "Blick ins Unendliche" (View to Infinity) |
paintings
68 x 49.5 cm (26.77 x 19.49 in)
Oil on paper laid on board.
- Private collection until 1942.
- Collection of Arthur Stoll, Corseaux, 1942-71.
- heirs of Arthur Stoll, 1971-95.
- Galerie Kornfeld auction, Bern, 23.6.1995, Lot 65.
- Collection of Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Vienna, acquired at the above auction
- Basel 1943, Kunstwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus Basler Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle Basel, 1.5.-4.7.1943, No. 329, as "Studie zum Blick ins Unendliche, 1916".
- Amsterdam 1948, Ferdinand Hodler, Stedelijk Museum, 4.-6.1948, No. 52, as "Blik in het oneindige, kopstudie".
- Vevey 1948, Exposition F. Hodler à l"occasion du 30e anniversaire de la mort du grand peintre national. Collection du Prof. Dr. A. Stoll, Musée Jenisch, 2.-31.10.1948, No. 32, as "Etude de tête pour le Regard dans l"infini".
- Neuenburg 1949, Exposition B. Menn - F. Hodler - P. Pignolat. Collection du Prof. Dr. A. Stoll, Musée des beaux-arts, 2.4.-6.6.1949, No. 51.
- São Paulo 1953, II Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, 11.1953-2.1954, Nr. 11, as "Estudo para "Olhar no infinito".
- Montevideo 1954, Pintura contemporánea de Suiza, 1.-24.4.1954, No. 16.
- Wetzikon, Bülach und Schwamendingen 1970, Ferdinand Hodler-Ausstellung, No. 47, as "Frauenkopf zu "Blick in die Unendlichkeit".
- Wien 2017/18, Ferdinand Hodler. Wahlverwandtschaften von Klimt bis Schiele, Leopold Museum, 13.10.2017-22.1.2018, S. 257, as "Blick ins Unendliche, Kopfstudie, 1914/15".
- Marcel Fischer: Sammlung Arthur Stoll. Skulpturen und Gemälde des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Zürich und Stuttgart 1961, p. 71, No. 397 (full page colour illustration.).
- Walter Ueberwasser und Robert Spreng: Hodler. Köpfe und Gestalten, Zürich 1947, p. 43, No. 109 (ill.), as "Einzelkopf aus dem "Blick ins Unendliche", 1915/1916".
- Hans A. Lüthy: Ferdinand Hodler. Sechzehn Bilder aus der Sammlung Arthur Stoll, Zürich und Stuttgart 1964, as "Frauenkopf. 1914/1915".
- Exh. Cat. Hodler-Werke aus Sarajevo. Die Sammlung und Sammlerin Jeanne Charles Cerani-Ćišić, Olten 1998, p. 59 (ill.), as "Kopf Jeanne Ceranis zum "Blick in die Unendlichkeit",1915".
- Oskar Bätschmann und Paul Müller: Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, Bd. III-2, Die Figurenbilder, Zürich 2017, p. 502, No. 1644 (ill.).
FERDINAND HODLER
(Bern 1853-1918 Geneva)
Head study for "Blick ins Unendliche" (View to Infinity). 1914/15.
Oil on paper laid on board.
68 × 49.5 cm.
