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Property from a Private European Collection | Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Européenne

Ferdinand Hodler

Der Holzfäller

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Lot closes

December 5, 01:38 PM GMT

Estimate

240,000 - 350,000 EUR

Starting Bid

240,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Collection

Ferdinand Hodler

1853 - 1918

Der Holzfäller

signed F. Hodler (lower right)

oil on paper

48 x 38,3 cm; 18⅞ x 15⅛ in.

Executed circa 1910.

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Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Européenne

Ferdinand Hodler

1853 - 1918

Der Holzfäller

signé F. Hodler (en bas à droite)

huile sur papier

48 x 38,3 cm; 18⅞ x 15⅛ in.

Exécuté vers 1910.

Simon Itzexon, Bern (1932)

Sotheby's Zurich, 16 June 1988, lot 74

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Carl Albert Loosli, Nachtrag zum Generalkatalog der Gemälde Ferdinand Hodler, Bern, 1924-1959, no. 2522 (Holzfäller, 1910)

Oskar Bätschmann and Paul Müller, Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde. Die Figurenbilder, Zurich, 2017, vol. 3, sub. vol. 2, p. 396, no. 1422, illustrated in colour

Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers is not applicable to this lot.

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Balthazar Beschey

Summer: peasants on horseback surrounded by others harvesting wheat, windmills beyond; and Winter: skaters and townsfolk on a frozen river, a village beyond

Estimate:25,000 - 35,000 GBP