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 [...]