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Félix Vallotton, Baigneuse aux roseaux, 1895, Oil on canvas© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Baigneuse aux roseaux

Félix Vallotton (Swiss, 1865–1925) · 1895

CHF 1,400,000 hammer

≈ $1,571,360≈ £1,224,087≈ €1,432,938

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Medium
Oil · Paintings all oil results →
As published: “Oil on canvas”
Support
Canvas
Category
Oil paintings
Dimensions
97 x 131.5 cm
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 278: Live Auction - Part 1 (278)
Date
June 16, 2023
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
169
Estimate
CHF 600,000 – — (≈ $673,440) (≈ £524,609) (≈ €614,116)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (6)
  • Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne (before 1926)
  • Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, no. 1130 (1927)
  • Collection Ferdinand Ruchonnet, Lausanne (1937)
  • Auction Bollag Galerie, Zurich, 8 December 1955, lot 70 reprod., bought there by
  • Private collection Zurich, by inheritance to
  • Private collection Switzerland
Exhibitions (4)
  • Paris 1895-96, Hôtel Bing, Salon de L'Art nouveau, probably cat. no. 699 (there titled "Baigneuse")
  • Paris 1926, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Trente ans d'art indépendant 1884-1914, Rétrospective de la Société des artistes indépendants, cat. no. 3256 (there titled "Baigneuse")
  • Lausanne/Bern 1927, Musée Arlaud/Kunsthalle, Félix Vallotton 1865-1925, cat. no. 9/10
  • Munich/Essen 1995-96, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung/Folkwang Museum, Félix Vallotton, cat. no. 16 reprod. (there titled "Badende/Femme au bain")
Literature (5)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Marina Ducrey, Félix Vallotton, L'œuvre peint, vol. II, Zurich/Lausanne 2005, no. 190
  • Catalogue raisonné: Livre de raison (Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler), no. 271 (Femme au bain peinture)
  • O. Td., Beaux-Arts. A la mémoire de Félix Vallotton, in: Journal de Genève, 20 September 1927.
  • Lucienne Florentin, Chronique artistique. L'œuvre de Félix Vallotton, in: La Suisse, 4 October 1927.
  • Ashley Saint James, Félix Vallotton. The Nabis Years, Thesis submitted for the Degree of PhD, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1982 (unpublished), pag. 121, 286, no. 128

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