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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 27, 2025 | Koller Auktionen | Zurich | Swiss Art | 3013 | $****** - ****** | Self portrait |
paintings
22 x 16 cm (8.66 x 6.3 in)
Oil on canvas laid on board.
Monogrammed lower right: F. H.
- Max Meirowsky, Cologne, 1912.
- Private collection, Switzerland, 1953-71.
- Private collection, Switzerland, 1971.
- Private collection, Switzerland.
- By descent to the current private collection.
- Cologne 1912, Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts in Kölner Privatbesitz, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, October-November 1912, no. 48, as "Selbstbildnis".
- Thun 1953, Ausstellung Ferdinand Hodler 1853-1918, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun; Thunerhof, 24.5.-30.8.1953, no. 13 (with the label on the reverse).
- Basel 1979, Ferdinand Hodler. Selbstbildnisse als Selbstbiographie, Kunstmuseum Basel, 17.6.-16.9.1979, no. 9 (with the label on the reverse).
- Arnold Fortlage-Köln: Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts in Kölner Privatbesitz, in: Der Cicerone, VI, 1912, issue 21, p. 806, as "Selbstbildnis".
- Exh.cat. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts in Kölner Privatbesitz, Cologne 1912, no. 48 (with ill.).
- Carl Albert Loosli: Ferdinand Hodler. Leben, Werk und Nachlass, Suter 1921-24, vol. II, p. 115.
- Carl Albert Loosli: Ferdinand Hodler. Leben, Werk und Nachlass, Bern 1922, vol. II, p. 115, as "Selbstbildnis, Kniestück".
- Carl Albert Loosli: Generalkatalog in: Ferdinand Hodler. Leben, Werk und Nachlass, Bern 1924, no. 1826, as "Selbstbildnis, Kniestück".
- Exh.cat. Ferdinand Hodler. Selbstbildnisse als Selbstbiographie, Basel 1979, p. 40 (with ill.).
- Oskar Bätschmann and Paul Müller: Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, ed. Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, vol. II, Die Bildnisse, Zurich 2012, p. 108, no. 674 (with ill.).
FERDINAND HODLER
(Bern 1853-1918 Geneva)
Self portrait. Circa 1878.
Oil on canvas laid on board.
Monogrammed lower right: F. H.
22 × 16 cm.
