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Ferdinand Hodler, Bachbett bei Champéry, 1916, Oil on canvas© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Bachbett bei Champéry

Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss, 1853–1918) · 1916

CHF 2,800,000 hammer

≈ $2,905,560≈ £2,369,178≈ €2,770,895

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Medium
Oil · Paintings all oil results →
As published: “Oil on canvas”
Support
Canvas
Category
Oil paintings
Dimensions
60.5 x 79 cm
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 276: Live Auction - Part 1 (276)
Date
June 17, 2022
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
74
Estimate
CHF 1,500,000 – — (≈ $1,556,550) (≈ £1,269,203) (≈ €1,484,408)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (5)
  • Coll. Willy Russ-Young, Neuchâtel (1921)
  • Collection Johannes Widmer, Geneva (before 1937)
  • Galerie Moos, Geneva, 30 October 1937, cat. no. 127 reprod. (there titled and dated "Ruisseau à Champéry, 1916)
  • Private collection Switzerland (1940), through inheritance to
  • Private collection Switzerland
Exhibitions (4)
  • Zurich 1917, Kunsthaus, Ausstellung Ferdinand Hodler in the Zürcher Kunsthaus, cat. no. 429 (there titled "Bachbett")
  • Bern 1921, Kunstmuseum, Hodler Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, cat. no. 591 (there titled and dated "Bach bei Champéry, 1916")
  • Bern 1936, Kunsthalle, Ferdinand Hodler 1853-1918, cat. no. 148 (there titled and dated "Bachbett, 1916")
  • Berkeley/New York/Cambridge 1972/1973, University Art Museum, University of California/The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Ferdinand Hodler, cat. no. 58 (there titled "Brook near Champery")
Literature (7)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Oskar Bätschmann/Paul Müller, Ferdinand Hodler, Werkkatalog der Gemälde, vol. 1, The Landscapes, sub-volume 2, Zurich 2008, no. 563
  • Carl Albert Loosli, Ferdinand Hodler, Leben, Werk und Nachlass, Generalkatalog, Bern 1921-1924, no. 104 (there titled and dated "Bach bei Champéry, 1916")
  • Johannes Widmer, Les Hodler de la Collection Russ-Young à Serrières-Neuchâtel, Geneva 1923, no. 78 reprod. (there titled and dated "Ruisseau de Champéry II, 1916")
  • Werner Y. Müller, The Art of Ferdinand Hodler, Gesamtdarstellung, vol. 2, Reife und Spätwerk 1895-1918, pag. 241
  • Werner Y. Müller, Landschaftskatalog, in: Werner Y. Müller, Die Kunst Ferdinand Hodlers, Zurich 1941, no. 573 (there titled and dated "Bachbett bei Champéry, 1916")
  • Hans Mühlestein/Georg Schmidt, Ferdinand Hodler 1853-1918, Sein Leben und sein Werk, Erlenbach-Zurich 1942, pag. 466 (there titled and dated "Bachbett bei Champéry, 1916"), pag. 467
  • Dieter Schwarz, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Katalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Winterthur/Düsseldorf 2005, pag. 226, note 2 (there titled and dated "Bachbett bei Champéry, 1916")

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