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10 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SWISS ART Laura Koller lkoller@kollerauctions.com ONLINE CATALOGUES www.kollerauctions.com Albert Anker Portraits of children are frequent in Anker’s work, and this drawing is an excellent example of the artist’s ability to capture the extraordinary in the ev- eryday. The subject of the two sisters asleep on the stove bench is known from a painting in the Kunsthaus Zurich. Anker made large-format, detailed charcoal and pencil drawings of im- portant paintings such as this one from 1895, which are considered works in their own right. Sisters sleeping on the oven bench. Circa 1895. Charcoal on paper. 50 × 67 cm. Estimate: CHF 70 000/100 000 Gottardo Segantini Among several paintings by Gottardo Segantini in our upcoming Swiss Art auction is ‘Ave Maria bei der Überfahrt’ (Hail Mary at the Crossing, ill. right), completed in 1952, which is based on one of the most important works by his father, Giovanni Segantini. Giovanni paint- ed it in 1886, shortly before his own crossing from Italy to Oberhalb- stein. The fresh summer tones and the unique light of the Grisons Alps in the painting of a Maloja landscape from 1924 (ill. left) are ex- emplary of Gottardo Segantini’s masterly use of colour. Agosto alpestre, Maloja. 1924. Oil on particle board. 100 × 120 cm. Estimate: CHF 60 000/120 000 Ave Maria at the Crossing. 1952. Oil on particle board. 108.5 × 82.5 cm. Estimate: CHF 150 000/250 000 Albert Anker Painted with great spontaneity, this lilac branch be- longs to the group of paintings in which Anker devotes his attention to the seeming insignificance of his sur- roundings. Lilac branch. Circa 1890. Oil on canvas. 41.5 × 70.5 cm. Estimate: CHF 80 000/120 000