Self Portrait
Cuno Amiet (Solothurn 1868 - Oschwand 1961)
Lot-No. 201
Proceeds : 1.500 €
Red chalk drawing, 39 x 28,5 cm, lo. ri. monogr. CA, lo. le. inscribed Cuno Amiet, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - As an extra: Portrait of Cuno Amiet, possibly self portrait, etching, 9 x 7 cm, lo. ri. inscribed Cuno Amiet, unframed. - Swiss painter, graphic artist and sculptor. A. studied at the Munich Academy 1886-88. Together with G. Giacometti he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1888-89, among others with W. Bouguereau. A., technically virtuoso and stylistically changeable, is one of the leading Swiss avant-gardists. Mus.: London (Tate), Paris, Zurich, Basel, Solothurn, Winterthur a. others. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer a. others.
Cuno Amiet: Self Portrait
Cuno Amiet (Solothurn 1868 - Oschwand 1961)
Self Portrait
Lot-No. 201
Proceeds : 1.500 €
Red chalk drawing, 39 x 28,5 cm, lo. ri. monogr. CA, lo. le. inscribed Cuno Amiet, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - As an extra: Portrait of Cuno Amiet, possibly self portrait, etching, 9 x 7 cm, lo. ri. inscribed Cuno Amiet, unframed. - Swiss painter, graphic artist and sculptor. A. studied at the Munich Academy 1886-88. Together with G. Giacometti he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1888-89, among others with W. Bouguereau. A., technically virtuoso and stylistically changeable, is one of the leading Swiss avant-gardists. Mus.: London (Tate), Paris, Zurich, Basel, Solothurn, Winterthur a. others. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer a. others.
