ALICE BAILLY (Geneva 1872 - 1938 Lausanne)On the banks of th...

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€5,000

ALICE BAILLY
(Geneva 1872 - 1938 Lausanne)
On the banks of the stream
oil/canvas, 43 x 58.5 cm
signed Alice Bailly
provenance: Dobiaschofsky, Bern 2008; International private collection

ESTIMATE °€ 5.000 - 10.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 5.000

Alice Bailly was an avant-garde Swiss painter and influenced Fauvism, Cubism and Futurism in the early 20th century. Bailly participated in several courses for women at the École des beaux Arts. From 1890 to 1891 she was a student of Hugues Bovy and Denise Sarkissof, under whom she studied at the École d'Art in Geneva. A scholarship abroad enabled her to study in Munich for a year. When she moved to Paris in 1904, she joined artists in the field of Cubism, including Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Marie Laurencin, and Sonia Lewitska. Between 1904 and 1910, Bailly was influenced by the Fauvist-oriented avant-garde. In 1908, her Fauvist-inspired paintings hung in the Salon d'Automne alongside other Fauvist artists. Works by her were exhibited there regularly until 1926. Her career reached its peak just before the outbreak of World War I, when Bailly embraced the avant-garde; she joined the cosmopolitan circles around Guillaume Apollinaire and his magazine Les Soirées de Paris, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Kees van Dongen, etc. Arthur Hahnloser and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler were a passionate collector couple. Through the Winterthur Art Association, they promoted mainly artists of Post-Impressionism. Bailly's works were not an essential part of the couple's collection, but the three were close friends. The Tableau-Laine "La bergère et son jardin" (1919) depicts their daughter Lisa Hahnloser. Werner Reinhart was an important person in Bailly's circle of friends in Winterthur from 1918 and a reliable patron. He also shared her enthusiasm for modern literature and music and opened the way for her into a circle of musicians and composers, including Arthur Honegger, Igor Stravinsky and Frank Martin, who were also supported by him. In 1936 she accepted the commission to complete eight murals for the foyer of the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne.

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