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Louis Soutter, Le très haut parleur à la lune, 1939, Brush and finger painting in oil, ink and gouache© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Le très haut parleur à la lune

Louis Soutter (Swiss, 1871–1942) · 1939

CHF 280,000 hammer

≈ $314,272≈ £244,817≈ €286,588

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Medium
Oil · Paintings all oil results →
As published: “Brush and finger painting in oil, ink and gouache”
Category
Oil paintings
Dimensions
58.5 x 44 cm
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 278: Live Auction - Part 1 (278)
Date
June 16, 2023
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
163
Estimate
CHF 250,000 – — (≈ $280,600) (≈ £218,587) (≈ €255,882)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (4)
  • Collection Jacques Benador, Geneva
  • Gallery M. Knoedler, Zurich 1981-82, cat. no. 78, there purchased by
  • Hess Art Collection, from there to
  • Private collection Switzerland
Exhibitions (3)
  • Solothurn 1965, Galerie Bernard, Louis Soutter, cat. no. 42
  • Munich/Bonn/Stuttgart 1985, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus/Kunstmuseum/Württembergischer Kunstverein, Louis Soutter, 1871-1942, Zeichnungen, Bücher, Fingermalereien, cat. no. 327, pag. 273 reprod. (there titled "Der den Mond laut Anredende").
  • Paris 2012, La Maison Rouge, Louis Soutter. Le tremblement de la modernité, no cat. no., pag. 6 reprod.
Literature (2)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Michel Thévoz, Louis Soutter, Catalogue de l'œuvre, Lausanne/Zurich 1976, no. 2786
  • Dieter Ronte, Hess Collection, Bern/Stuttgart 1989, cat. no. 130, pag. 191 reprod.

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