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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 | 3017 | $****** - ****** | Old woman with cat |
paintings
32 x 24 cm (12.6 x 9.45 in)
Oil on paper laid on panel.
Dated, signed and monogrammed lower right: 1889 F. Hodler; F.H.
- Probably collection of Cäsar Aberegg, Zurich, 17.1.1916.
- Collection of Otto Ingold, Bern, 29.1.1919.
- Private collection Zbinden, Baden, 4.3.1919.
- Collection of Gottlieb Lüthy, Basel and Aarburg, 1920-40.
- Private collection, Switzerland.
- By descent to the current collection.
- Neuenburg 1912, Onzième exposition nationale des beaux-arts, Place du Port, 15.9.-15.11.1912, no. 254, as "Femme".
- Bern 1921, Hodler-Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, Kunstmuseum Bern, 10.8.-23.10.1921, no. 205, as "Alte Frau mit Katze, 1889" (with the label on the reverse).
- Pfäffikon 1981, Der frühe Hodler. Das Werk 1870-1890, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, 11.4.-14.6.1981, no. 108 (with the label on the reverse).
- Lucien Florentin: L"art suisse à l"expostition nationale de 1912, in: L"art suisse, No. 127, Octobre-Novembre, pp. 1-12, no. 254, as "Femme".
- Johannès Widmer: Ferdinand Hodler. Première période de 1870 à 1891, in: Pages d"art, April 1916, p. 10, as "La Grand-Mère" (with ill.).
- Carl Albert Loosli: Generalkatalog in: Ferdinand Hodler. Leben, Werk und Nachlass, Suter 1921-24, p. 20, as "Mme. Dupin mit Katze".
- Carl Albert Loosli: Ferdinand Hodler. Leben, Werk und Nachlass. Das Werk Ferdinand Hodler"s von 1870 bis 1889, Bern 1922, vol. II, p. 141, as "Alte Frau mit der Katze".
- Ewald Bender: Die Kunst Ferdinand Hodlers. Gesamtdarstellung. vol I. Das Frühwerk bis 1895, Zurich 1923, p. 85, no. 313, as "Grossmutter, mit Katze spielend" (with ill.).
- Carl Albert Loosli: Generalkatalog in: Ferdinand Hodler. Leben, Werk und Nachlass, Bern 1924, no. 24, as "Alte Frau mit Katze".
- Carl Albert Loosli: Ferdinand Hodler. Leben, Werk und Nachlass. Urkunden, Bern 1924, vol. IV, p. 47.
- Hans Mühlestein and Georg Schmidt: Ferdinand Hodler 1853-1918. Sein Leben und sein Werk, Erlenbach-Zürich 1942, p. 204.
- Exh.cat. Der frühe Hodler: das Werk 1870-1890, Pfäffikon 1981, p. 27, no. 108 (with ill.).
- Jura Brüschweiler: Ferdinand Hodler (Bern 1853-Genf 1918). Chronologische Übersicht: Biographie. Werk. Rezensionen, in: Ferdinand Hodler, Zurich 1983, p. 73.
- Matthias Wohlgemuth and Franz Zelger: Schweizer Maler und Bildhauer seit Ferdinand Hodler, Zurich 1984, p. 168.
- Oskar Bätschmann and Paul Müller: Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, ed. Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, vol. III-1, Die Figurenbilder, Zurich 2017, pp. 166 f., no. 1153 (with ill.).
FERDINAND HODLER
(Bern 1853-1918 Geneva)
Old woman with cat. Circa 1885.
Oil on paper laid on panel.
Dated, signed and monogrammed lower right: 1889 F. Hodler; F.H.
32 × 24 cm.
