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Benjamin Vautier I, Gemeinderatsversammlung / Vor der Sitzung, 1876, Oil on canvas© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Gemeinderatsversammlung / Vor der Sitzung

Benjamin Vautier I (1829–1898) · 1876

CHF 30,000 hammer

≈ $32,943≈ £25,423≈ €27,840

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Medium
Oil · Paintings all oil results →
As published: “Oil on canvas”
Support
Canvas
Category
Oil paintings
Dimensions
84 x 125 cm
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 272: Art of the 19th to 21st Centuries - Part 1 (272)
Date
September 18, 2020
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
172
Estimate
CHF 50,000 – — (≈ $54,905) (≈ £42,372) (≈ €46,400)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (2)
  • Kunsthandlung Honrath und van Baerle, Berlin (1876)
  • Corporate Collection Switzerland
Literature (5)
  • B. Vautier-Album, Photographien nach Original-Gemälden des Künstlers, München, Edition Franz Hanfstaengl, 1890
  • Adolf Rosenberg, Vautier, Bielefeld/Leipzig, Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1897, p. 72-82
  • Jacques Longchamp, Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (dit l'Ancien), Une monographie, Genf, Éditions Slatkine, 2015, cat. no. 8
  • Exhibition
  • München 1876, Glaspalast, Kunst- und Kunstindustrie-Ausstellung alter und neuer deutscher Meister sowie der deutschen Kunstschulen, room 41, cat. no. 25

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