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Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland, the Staechelin & Im Obersteg Collections

This is a unique chance to see works from two remarkable private Swiss collections. It pays tribute to two pioneering supporters of modernism, Rudolf Staechelin (1881-1946) and Karl Im Obersteg (1883-1969), industrialists and businessmen, close friends, and enthusiastic champions of impressionist, post-impressionist, and school of Paris artists.

Gauguin to Picasso, Masterworks from Switzerland features over sixty celebrated paintings from their collections, created during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century by twenty-two world-famous artists. Masterpieces include Paul Gauguin's Nafea faa ipoipo (When will you Marry?) (1892), the most expensive work of art ever sold, Vincent van Gogh's Daubigny's Garden (1890), Pablo Picasso's double-sided canvas Femme dans la loge / Buveuse d'absinthe (1901), and Marc Chagall's three monumental Rabbi portraits. There are extraordinary paintings by artists of international stature including Swiss master Ferdinand Hodler, R

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Paul Gauguin

French artist (1848–1903)

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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; French:[øʒɛnɑ̃ʁipɔlɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.^[1]^[2] While only moderately successful during his lifetime, Gauguin has since been recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism.

Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848, amidst the tumult of Europe's revolutionary year. In 1850, Gauguin's family settled in Peru, where he experienced a privileged childhood that left a lasting impression on him. Later, financial struggles led them back to France, where Gauguin received formal education. Initially working as a stockbroker, Gauguin started painting in his spare time, his interest in art kindled

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Drawn from two major private collections, Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland presents more than 60 celebrated works by 22 leading artists of the mid-19th and 20th centuries. Friends from Basel, Switzerland, Rudolf Staechelin (1881–1946) and Karl Im Obersteg (1883–1969) were supporters of modern art and patrons of the Kunstmuseum Basel, where these paintings are normally on display.

In areas of Switzerland during the first decades of the 20th century, the work of artists in France gained tremendous resonance. The exchange of ideas through the circulation of modern French art exhibitions and publications to major European cities, along with the travel of artists, dealers, critics, and collectors, inspired a generation of independent-minded Swiss patrons. Several cultivated friendships with artists and dealers, and in major Swiss cities they established significant collections of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.

Staechelin and Im Obersteg were part of this collecting spirit. Their shared admiration for modern Swiss painters such as Ferdina