Bern 1853 - 1918 Genf
circa 1912
Oil on canvas
46x38 cm
Signed by the artist in oil paint at lower right "F. Hodler"
Oskar Bätschmann/Paul Müller, Ferdinand Hodler, Catalogue raisonné of Paintings, Volume 2, The Portraits, Zurich 2012, no. 898
possibly the Georges Maurice Baud Collection (until 1915).
Auction Salon Bollag, Zurich, 25 November 1916, lot 46 (there titled "Portrait of a woman")
Collection Eugène Lambert, Geneva (1921-1954)
Auction G. & L. Bollag, Zurich, 23 October 1931, lot 78 (there titled and dated "Tête de femme sur fond rose, 1911")
Auction Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 12th November 1954, lot 495 (there titled "Blond woman's head")
Auction Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 16 November 1955, lot 1060 (there titled "Frauenkopf")
Auction Gallery Jürg Stuker, Bern, 27 November 1957, lot 2760
Private collection Switzerland
Possibly Basel 1913, Kunsthalle, March exhibition, cat. no. 16 (there titled "Tête de femme en cheveux blonds").
possibly Zurich 1917, Kunsthaus, Ausstellung 7-31 January 1917, cat. no. 103 (there titled "Mädchenkopf, blond")
possibly Geneva 1918, Galerie Moos, cat. no. 375 (there titled "Femme blonde")
Geneva 1918, Galerie Moos, Exposition Ferdinand Hodler, cat. no. 56 (there titled and dated "Portrait de femme fond rose, 1912")
Geneva 1918, Galerie Moos, Expositions. Peinture anglaise moderne. Hodler - Pierre Bertrand et A. Regnier, cat. no. 174
Geneva 1920, Palais électoral, Exposition Internationale d'Art Moderne. Peinture, Sculpture, cat. no. 95
Bern 1921, Museum of Art, Hodler Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, cat. no. 437 (there titled and dated "Blonder Frauenkopf auf rosa Grund, 1911")
Geneva 1928, Galerie Moos, Exposition Ferdinand Hodler, cat. no. 57
On the original stretcher, in the old nailing, varnished. In impeccable condition
Ferdinand Hodler was commissioned to design the fifty and hundred franc notes in 1908. There is a formal similarity between the two versions of the female bust portrait (CR no. 897 and CR no. 898) and the medallions with the portrait of Jeanne Charles Cerani-Cisic on the front of the banknotes. In both, the shoulder sloping to the left is balanced by the head inclination to the right. The comparison with the two oil paintings shows how Hodler gradually changed the model head into an ideal type. The version (CR no. 897) was described as an "Englishwoman" in the 1917 Kunsthaus Zurich exhibition. The sitter could not be identified until today
Um 1912
Öl auf Leinwand
46x38 cm
Unten rechts vom Künstler in Ölfarbe signiert "F. Hodler"
Oskar Bätschmann/Paul Müller, Ferdinand Hodler, Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, Band 2, Die Bildnisse, Zürich 2012,
evtl. Slg. Georges Maurice Baud (bis 1915)
Auktion Salon Bollag, Zürich, 25. November 1916, Los 46 (dort betitelt "Frauenbildnis")
Slg. Eugène Lambert, Genf (1921-1954)
Auktion G. & L. Bollag, Zürich, 23. Oktober 1931, Los 78 (dort betitelt und datiert "Tête de femme sur fond rose, 1911")
Auktion Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 12. November 1954, Los 495 (dort betitelt "Blonder Frauenkopf")
Auktion Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 16. November 1955, Los 1060 (dort betitelt "Frauenkopf")
Auktion Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 27. November 1957, Los 2760
Privatsammlung Schweiz
evtl. Basel 1913, Kunsthalle, März-Ausstellung,
evtl. Zürich 1917, Kunsthaus, Ausstellung 7.-31. Januar 1917,
evtl. Genf 1918, Galerie Moos,
Genf 1918, Galerie Moos, Exposition Ferdinand Hodler,
Genf 1918, Galerie Moos, Expositions. Peinture anglaise moderne. Hodler – Pierre Bertrand et A. Regnier,
Genf 1920, Palais électoral, Exposition Internationale d'Art Moderne. Peinture, Sculpture,
Bern 1921, Kunstmuseum, Hodler-Gedächtnis-Ausstellung,
Genf 1928, Galerie Moos, Exposition Ferdinand Hodler,
Auf dem originalen Chassis, in der alten Nagelung, gefirnisst. In tadelloser Erhaltung
Ferdinand Hodler erhielt 1908 den Auftrag zur Gestaltung der Fünfzig- und der Hundertfrankennote. Zwischen den zwei Fassungen des weiblichen Brustbildnisses (WK