VARLIN (WILLY GUGGENHEIM) (Zurich 1900–1977 Bondo) Wartesaal in Ouchy (Waiting room in Ouchy). 1943. Oil on board. Signed lower right: VARLIN. 68.5 × 80.5 cm. Provenance: - Art collection of the Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich, inv. no. 444 B (acquired in 1972). - Sale, Sotheby's, Zurich, 27.5.2008, Lot 138. - Swiss private collection, acquired at the above auction. Exhibited: - Zurich 1945, Zürcher Künstler im Helmhaus, Helmhaus, 3.11. – 4.12.1945, probably no. 119. - Bern 1954, Varlin – Leo Deck, Kunsthalle Bern, 11.9. – 17.10.1954, probably no. 21. Literature: Paola Tedeschi-Pellanda and Patrizia Guggenheim: Varlin. Werkverzeichnis der Bilder, Zurich and Frankfurt 2000, vol. II, p. 83, no. 368 (with ill.).

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