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13 Gottardo Segantini Gottardo Segantini’s painting style was influenced by the work of his father Giovanni. Both had a strong connection to their homeland – the Engadine in general and, in particular, their hometown of Maloja. Return in winter. 1955. Oil on hardboard. 75 × 100 cm. Sold for CHF 290 000 Giovanni Giacometti After studying in Munich and Paris, Giovanni Giacom- etti returned to Bergell, settling first in Borgonovo, and later in Stampa. Giacometti set up a studio in Capolago on Lake Sils, where the family regularly spent their summers. This is where he painted many of his views of the Engadine. Snow-covered village scene in Capolago. 1932. Oil on canvas. 60 × 50 cm. Sold for CHF 265 000 Albert Anker Anker’s masterly genre paintings convey a true-to-life picture of rural Switzer- land in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries. The motif of a girl writing also repre- sents the national endeavour to impart education to Swiss children of all social classes with the introduction of compulsory education in 1874. Albert Anker was one of the staunchest advocates of this progressive development. A girl writing. Oil on canvas. 35 × 51.5 cm. Sold for CHF 540 000 Félix Vallotton There is an inherent mystery in each of Vallotton’s paintings. Here, the Swiss artist, who worked in France, places a nude viewed from behind in shallow water with a glimpse of what are probably the cliffs of Normandy at the right. Vallotton plays on the voyeur- istic tendencies of the public, while at the same time this oversized figure appears as a dreamlike illusion. Baigneuse aux mouettes. 1919. Oil on canvas. 61 × 46 cm. Sold for CHF 180 000 Adolf Dietrich Recently the NZZ, in a feature article about Adolf Dietrich, called him the ‘Swiss Rousseau’. Precisely painted subjects such as this one depict the artist’s humble surroundings near Lake Constance. A blue tit on a flowering branch, with deer. 1945. Oil on board. 27.5 × 22.5 cm. Sold for CHF 56 000 © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich