A major landscape by Ferdinand Hodler sells for CHF 7,138,500 at Sotheby’s Zurich

ZURICH.- Sotheby’s Zurich last evening sold a major landscape by the celebrated Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler – Genfersee von Chexbres aus (Lake Geneva from Chexbres) – for CHF 7,138,500 (€5,784,660). A new world auction record for a work by Albert Anker was also established when Strickendes Mädchen, Kleinkind in der Wiege hütend achieved CHF 6,130,500 (€4,967,830). Estimated in excess of CHF 11 million, tonight’s auction realised CHF 17,410,500 (€14,108,540), bringing the total of Swiss Art sold by Sotheby’s Zurich in 2011 to [...]

Koller Auctions to offer a scintillating range of works in several events in Geneva and Zurich

ZURICH.- In November Koller Auctions will host several events in Geneva. Between 12 and 14 November at the Hotel de La Paix, this, the largest auction house in Switzerland, will present the top lots for its December auction to take place in Zurich. On 18 November the Koller Geneva auction will take place at the Palais de l‘Athénée. “After the success of our Highlights exhibition at the Hotel de La Paix last May, from 12 to 14 November we are again pleased to [...]

Sale of Artwork and Personal Effects Belonging to Albert Anker Makes USD 660,000

GENEVA.- The Exceptional collection of artwork and personal effects belonging to Albert Anker (1831-1910), went under the hammer on Wednesday 9th March 2011 at the Geneva based auction house Hôtel des Ventes totalling: CHF 680,000/USD 660,000/EUR 540,000 Adeline Balerna Bisch, head of the department of oils and graphic works of the Hotel des Ventes in Geneva, presents a watercolor entitled Young boy carrying a child on her lap of Swiss artist Albert Anker, during a presentation of the Albert Anker collection [...]

Masterpieces by Felix Vallotton to Take Centre Stage in Sotheby’s Zurich Swiss Art Sale

ZURICH.- This autumn, Sotheby’s Zurich auction of Swiss Art on 6 December will celebrate Félix Vallotton in a sale bringing together masterpieces by the Swiss master. Estimated between CHF 9.3 and 12.9 million, the 133- lot sale will also be spearheaded by works by eminent representatives from the 19th and 20th centuries’ Swiss art production, including Giovanni Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Albert Anker and Ernest Biéler. Commenting on the exceptional quality of this autumn sale, Urs Lanter, Sotheby’s Director and Swiss art [...]

Swiss Painter Albert Anker Gets Big Centenary Show

BERN (REUTERS).- A gaggle of lively children, some barefoot, take a nature walk with their young teacher; a downcast farmer counts coins from his purse to pay a tax debt; a dozing old man cradles his sleeping grand-daughter on his lap. These are some of the iconic scenes of late 19th century life captured by an artist little known outside his homeland that can be seen in reproduction today in homes and offices across the modern Switzerland of technology and [...]

Kunstmuseum Bern Celebrates Centenary of the Death of Albert Anker with Exhibition

BERN.- The Kunstmuseum Bern is putting on a large retrospective of Albert Anker’s manifold oeuvre to commemorate the centenary of this key Swiss artist’s death. The exhibition will take up several themes representative for Anker’s work and demonstrate how exceptional he was as a painter. Video works by Chantal Michel, a performance and media artist who lives in Bern, enhance the presentation. A trigger for this exhibition was the immensely popular Anker show that was organized by the Kunstmuseum Bern [...]