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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 | 3019 | $****** - ****** | Father and child |
paintings
31.5 x 24.5 cm (12.4 x 9.65 in)
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right: F. Hodler.
- Collection of Mme Blum, Geneva, 1917-23.
- Galerie Moos, Geneva, 1932.
- Galerie Moos, Geneva, 30.10.1937, lot 116.
- Private collection, Dr Fritz Nathan, St. Gallen.
- Private collection, Switzerland.
- By descent to the current collection.
- Probably Geneva 1913, Exposition. Max Buri. Ferd. Hodler. Otto Vautier, Galerie Moos, 1.10.-31.10.1913, no. 52, as "Père et fils".
- Zurich 1917, Ausstellung Ferdinand Hodler im Zürcher Kunsthaus, Kunsthaus Zürich, 14.6.-5.8.1917, no. 76, as "Vater und Kind".
- Geneva 1918, Exposition Ferdinand Hodler, Galerie Moos, 11.5.-30.6.1918, no. 30.
- Geneva 1928, Exposition Ferdinand Hodler, Galerie Moos, 15.5.-30.6.1928, no. 15.
- Winterthur 1932, Der frühe Hodler, Kunstverein Winterthur, 4.9.-16.10.1932, no. 138.
- Geneva 1936, Ferdinand Hodler. Exposition organisée à l"occasion du XIVe Congrès international d"Histoire de l"Art, Galerie Moos, 8.9.-30.9.1936, no. 16.
- Winterthur 1942, Der unbekannte Winterthurer Privatbesitz 1500-1900, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 5.9.-5.11.1942, no. 138.
- Thun 1953, Ausstellung Ferdinand Hodler 1853-1918, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun, Thunerhof, 24.5.-30.8.1953, no. 25.
- Cologne, Munich and Hamburg 1954, F. Hodler, Kunsthaus Lempertz; Kunstverein München; Kunstverein Hamburg; Kunsthalle Hamburg, 7.7.-8.8.1954; 18.8.-26.9.1954; 30.9.-31.10.1954; 30.9.-31.10.1954, no. 12.
- Pfäffikon 1981, Der frühe Hodler. Das Werk 1870-1890, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, 11.4.-14.6.1981, no. 84.
- Ewald Bender: Die Kunst Ferdinand Hodlers. Gesamtdarstellung. Das Frühwerk bis 1895, Zurich 1923, vol I., p. 82, no. 307 (with ill.).
- Carl Albert Loosli: Generalkatalog in: Ferdinand Hodler. Leben, Werk und Nachlass, Suter 1921-24, no. 1231, as "Vater und Kind".
- Exh.cat. Der frühe Hodler, Winterthur 1932, p. 28, no. 47.
- Gotthard Jedlicka: Bemerkungen über Ferdinand Hodler zum 20. Todestag: 19. Mai 1938, in: Galerie und Sammler, no. 6, 1938, p. 93 (with ill.).
- Hans Mühlestein and Georg Schmidt: Ferdinand Hodler 1853-1918. Sein Leben und sein Werk, Erlenbach-Zurich 1942, p. 203.
- Exh.cat. Der unbekannte Winterthurer Privatbesitz 1500-1900, Winterthur 1942, p. 26, no. 138 (with plate XX).
- Exh.cat. F. Hodler, Köln, Hamburg und München 1954, p. 13, no. 12.
- Exh.cat. Der frühe Hodler: das Werk 1870-1890, Pfäffikon 1981, p. 145, no. 84 (with ill.).
- Jura Brüschweiler: Ferdinand Hodler (Bern 1853-Genf 1918). Chronologische Übersicht: Biographie. Werk. Rezensionen, in: Ferdinand Hodler, Zurich 1983, p. 73.
- Matthias Wohlgemuth und Franz Zelger: Schweizer Maler und Bildhauer seit Ferdinand Hodler, Zurich 1984, p. 68 (with ill.).
- Oskar Bätschmann and Paul Müller: Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, ed. Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, vol. III-1, Die Figurenbilder, Zurich 2017, p. 154, no. 1135 (with ill.).
FERDINAND HODLER
(Bern 1853-1918 Geneva)
Father and child. Circa 1883.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right: F. Hodler.
31.5 × 24.5 cm.
