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Lot 3095 - A209 Swiss Art - Friday, 21. June 2024, 02.00 PM

CUNO AMIET

(Solothurn 1868–1961 Oschwand)
Self portrait before a picture of a garden. 1919.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated lower right: CA 19.
77.5 × 65 cm.

Provenance:
- Probably collection of Max Padel, Bern.
- Fritz Pochon-Jent, Bern.
- Sale Sotheby's, Zurich, 31.5.1990, Lot 78.
- Private collection, acquired at the above auction.
- Various private collections, Switzerland, 1994.

Exhibited:
- Bern 1919, Ausstellung Cuno Amiet, Kunsthalle Bern, 13.4.–18.5.1919, No. 80 or 87, as "Selbstporträt".
- Probably Bern 1928, Cuno Amiet und seine Schüler, Kunstmuseum Bern, 12.5.–22.7.1928, No. 141, as "Selbstbildnis".
- Langenthal 1994, Cuno Amiet. Ein Leben in Selbstbildnissen, Kunsthaus Langenthal, 29.10.–4.12.1994, No. 58, as "Selbstbildnis im Spiegel" (label verso).
- Bern and Geneva 1999–2001, Cuno Amiet. Von Pont-Aven zur "Brücke", Kunstmuseum Bern, 3.12.1999–27.2.2000; Musée Rath, 31.8.2000–7.1.2001; No. 150, as "Selbstbildnis vor Gartenbildnis im Spiegel" (label verso).
- Mendrisio 2017/18, Il paradiso di Cuno Amiet, Museo d'arte Mendrisio, 22.10.2017–4.2.2018, No. 61, as "Autoritratto davanti a un dipinto raffigurante il giardino".

Literature:
- Exh.cat. Ausstellung Cuno Amiet, Bern 1919, p. 9, No. 80 or No. 87 (fig. 78/65).
- Exh.cat. Cuno Amiet. Von Pont-Aven zur "Brücke", Bern and Geneva 1999–2001, p. 313, No. 150 (ill.).
- Karin Plaschy-Huchler: “Du selbst bist dein Hauptwerk”: Cuno Amiets Selbstbildnisse zwischen Selbstpropaganda und künstlerischer Selbstreflexion, Zürich 2012, No. 1919.02 (ill.).
- Franz Müller und Viola Radlach: Cuno Amiet. Die Gemälde 1883–1919, ed. Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zürich 2014, vol. II, p. 525, No. 1919.01 (ill).

CHF 50 000 / 80 000 | (€ 51 550 / 82 470)


Sold for CHF 75 000 (including buyer’s premium)
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