BIELER, ERNEST

BIELER, ERNEST

(Rolle 1863 - 1948 Lausanne)

Valais woman with prayer book. 1923.

Tempera on paper on cardboard.

Signed and dated centre left: ERNEST BIELER 23.

44 x 21 cm.

Ethel Mathier will include this work in the Ernest Biéler catalogue raisonné.

Provenance:
- Frédéric Fehlmann, Lausanne (1929).
- Swiss private collection.

Exhibited:
Rivaz 1929, Exposition Ernest Biéler, Le Monteiller-Rivaz, 15.–30.6.1929, exh. cat as "La vieille Marguerite".

Literature:
O mein Heimatland. Schweizerische Kunst- und Literaturchronik, 1925, ill. p. 184/185, as "Walliserin".