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Day (Truth)
Ferdinand Hodler · 1896/98
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; Hector Hodler (1887–1920), Geneva, until 1920 [this and all following, Bätschmann and Müller, 2008]; Emilie Hodler-Ruch (1880–1964), Geneva, later Nice, until 1961; Paulette Magnenant-Hodler (1913–1999), Geneva, until 1965. Private collection, Switzerland, until 2003; sold, Sotheby’s, Switzerland, May 26, 2003, lot 47 to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Oskar Bätschmann and Paul Müller, ed., Ferdinand Hodler: Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, vol. 3, part 1, Die Figurenbilder (Zurich: Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess, 2008), 291, 292 (color ill.), cat. 1310, as Der Tag/Die Wahrheit, 1899–1902
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