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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 31, 2017 | Van Ham | Cologne | Modern, Post War, Contemporary | 34 | $****** - ****** | Picture Albertine Bernhard. , 1917 |
paintings
35 x 33.5 cm (13.78 x 13.19 in)
Oil on canvas
Dated and signed lower right: 1917 F. Hodler. Verso denoted on stretcher: Mlle Albertine Bernhard Niece de F. Hodler
Gallery Moos, Geneva (label, stamp), ca. 1918-1954 Collection Arthur Stoll, Arlesheim, 1954-1971 Estate Arthur Stoll, Arlesheim, 1971-1994 Gallery Kornfeld, Berne, 1994 Gallery Michael Haas, Berlin, 1994-1996
Private collection (since 1996
Gallery Moos, Geneva 1918 (No. 170, "Jeune femme", 1917, illustration) Gallery Moos, Geneva 1935 (Lot 89, Portrait de sa nièce {Mlle Bernhardt} 1917, illustration) Art gallery Basle, 1919 (No. 111, "Portrait de jeune femme", 1917) Art muserum Berne/ art gallery Berne, 1921 (No. 616, "Kopf einer jungen Frau") (label) Gallery Arnold, Dresden 1925 (No. 46, "Bildnis Frl. Bernhard {Nichte Hodlers}) Gallery Thannhauser, Munich 1925 (No. 62) (label) Art gallery Basle, 1934 (No. 104, "Frauenporträt"
Loosli, Carl Albert: Ferdinand Hodler - Leben, Werk und Nachlass, vol. IV, Bern 1924, cat. rais. no. 146 (Generalkatalog, "Frl. Albertine Bernhard {Kopfbildnis im Rechtsprofil}, 1917) Schweizer Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (Ed.): Sammlung Arthur Stoll. Skulpturen und Gemälde des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Zurich/ Stuttgart 1961, no. 401, p. 71 (ill.) (Bildnis Albertine Bernhard, Nichte des Künstlers) Diggelmann, Hansjakob, "Die Werke Ferdinand Hodlers in der Sammlung Arthur Stoll", in: Brugger Neujahrsblätter, 1972, no. 78, S. 134, 140. Bätschmann, Oskar/Brunner, Monika/Walter, Bernadette (Ed.): Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) - Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, Band 2: Die Bildnisse, Zurich 2012, cat rais. no. 1033 with ill. Ferdinand Hodler discovered in portrait painting a true field for experimentation in color, form, and expression, quite early. Numerous paintings, primarily portraits of women, were made between 1872 and 1917, and are considered to be among the most expressive depictions of human beings in Swiss art.Our painting shows Hodler's much beloved niece Albertine Bernhard, who he painted repeatedly until the end of his life. After arriving in Switzerland from Paris at the end of the 1880s, the five-year-old orphan was reared by a great uncle, a shoemaker from Langenthal. At the time, Albertine only spoke French. Within the family, her uncle Ferdinand was the only one with whom she could communicate in her mother tongue and this may in part have contributed to the deep relationship that developed between them. Albertine often accompanied her uncle when he painted his famous landscapes in nature. Hodler was inspired by the joy of life that she emanated. In our portrait, Hodler depicts his niece before a neutral background without any anecdotal element in order to concentrate entirely on her physiognomy. This portrait is unusual inasmuch as the attractive young woman is not portrayed from a frontal perspective: Perkily, she looks over her right shoulder out of the picture as if denying the viewer's gaze. Her posture and facial expression suggest utter joy and pure love of life. Hodler's characteristic broad vital brushstrokes and red-green color contrast conveys this impression in a congenial manner enhancing the intensity through the narrow field of view and the chosen small format. This portrait is one of the last paintings Hodler completed
A portrait of the artist's niece
