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1 Félix Vallotton. Torse à l’étoffe jaune. 1913. Oil on canvas. 81 × 65.5 cm. Sold for CHF 225 000 2 Cuno Amiet. Portrait of Ferdinand Hodler in front of his Marignano painting. 1898. (1 st version). Tempera and oil on canvas. 76 × 52.5 cm. Sold for CHF 1.35 million 3 Ferdinand Hodler. Lake Geneva with the Jura. Circa 1911. Oil on canvas. 45 × 71 cm. Sold for CHF 5.1 million 4 Louis Soutter. Allons à l‘aventure. 1937–42. Mixed media on paper (finger painting). 58 × 44 cm. Sold for CHF 285 000 Several art-historically significant paintings in our June Swiss Art auctions inspired spirited bidding. Cuno Ami- et’s portrait of Ferdinand Hodler (ill. 2) was commis- sioned in the early 20 th century by the Swiss collector Oscar Miller. This masterpiece, a second version of which is in the Solothurn Art Museum, is now in a pri- vate collection in western Switzerland, having sold for 1.35 million Swiss francs, five times the lower estimate. A view of Lake Geneva (ill. 3) by Ferdinand Hodler was also purchased by a Swiss private collector. The oil painting changed hands for CHF 5.1 million, making it the top lot of the auction week. Félix Vallotton’s enig- matic portrait of a young woman (ill. 1) also achieved a result well above its estimate at CHF 225 000. Louis Soutter's work, which exists in its own cosmos of gestures and signs, has been consistently attracting interest at exhibitions and on the art market for many Consign now: Swiss Art years now. His finger painting ‘Allons à l‘aventure’ (ill. 4) changed hands for CHF 285 000. In the Impressionist and Modern Art auction, works by female artists from the early 20 th century were in par- ticularly high demand. The CHF 475 000 paid for an au- tumn landscape with riders by Marianne von Werefkin marked a new world auction record for the Russian Expressionist. Gabriele Münter’s ‘House by the Lake with Blue Mountains’ from 1933–35 (ill. 5) reached the quarter-million-franc mark, also exceeding its estimate. Monumental works by Manolo Valdés (ill. 7) and Katharina Grosse were the focus of the PostWar & Contemporary auction, with hammer prices of CHF 350 000 and CHF 225 000 respectively. Niki de Saint Phalle’s colourful sculpture of an ice-skating couple quadrupled its lower estimate and sold for CHF 107 000. 1, 2, 3, 4 03 re view. 16