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Day (Truth)
Provenance
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.
Publications
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
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ferdinand Hodler / Swiss, 1853–1918
- Date
- 1896/98
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 200.5 × 105 cm (79 × 41 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Place
- Switzerland
- Department
- Modern Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph Winterbotham Collection
- Accession no.
- 2003.119
More by Ferdinand Hodler in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001644
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