Day (Truth)

1896/98

Ferdinand Hodler
Swiss, 1853–1918

Status: On View, Gallery 246
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Ferdinand Hodler
Title: Day (Truth)
Place: Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1896–1898
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 200.5 × 105 cm (79 × 41 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Joseph Winterbotham Collection
Reference Number: 2003.119
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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

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.

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