Blühende Bäume im Schnee

1926

not on display

Giovanni Giacometti1868 Stampa – 1933 Glion

View from the studio in Stampa.
The idea to paint white flowering trees in the snow goes back to the Nabis, especially Maurice Denis. The unusual nature of the event prompted Giacometti for once to date it to the day.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Blossoming Trees in the Snow

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 48.5 x 53 cm

Inventory number

2019

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Dr. H. E. Mayenfisch Collection, 1929

Signature

inscr. b. r.: G / G [monogram] 17 V 1926

Inscriptions

on verso: Giov.ni Giacometti / Stampa 1926

Accession year

1929

Provenance

Giovanni Giacometti (*1868 Stampa, +1933 Glion) (Künstler/-in)
o.D. – 1929, Hans E. Mayenfisch (*1882 Zürich, +1957 Zürich) (Sammler/-in)
ab 1929, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Geschenk

About the provenance

State of research 01.01.2007 Do you have questions, criticism, suggestions, and further information? Please send us a message to provenienzforschung(at)kunsthaus.ch.

Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 310. - Paul Müller/Viola Radlach: Giovanni Giacometti 1868–1933, Zürich: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 1997, No. 1926.04.

Object type

painting

Classification

D 1[1] art 20th century CHE

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