FERDINAND HODLER (Bern 1853–1918 Geneva) Landscape with a meadow and the edge of a forest. Circa 1890. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right: F. Hodler. 35.4 × 47.3 cm. Provenance: - Collection of Ulrich Diem-Bernet, received directly from the artist in 1907. 1907–22.4.1955. - Swiss private collection, received as a silver wedding anniversary gift, probably from the above, 22.4.1955 (label on the reverse). - Sale, Galerie Vogler, Basel, 2012. - Swiss private collection. Literature: Oskar Bätschmann and Paul Müller: Ferdinand Hodler. Catalogue raisonné der Gemälde, publ. by Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, vol. IV, Biografien und Dokumente, Zurich 2018, p. 300, no. 1700 (with ill.).

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