WILHELM GIMMI

WILHELM GIMMI
(Zurich 1886–1965 Chexbres)Les grenades. 1915.Oil on canvas.Signed and dated upper left: Gimmi 1915.60 × 73 cm.Provenance:
- With Galerie Tanner, Zurich.
- Private collection, Switzerland.

Exhibited:
- Zurich 1916, Ausstellung W. Gimmi, Galerie Tanner, 14.4.–20.5.1916, no. 24.
- Kunsthaus Zürich, as 'Früchtestillleben 1915' (label verso).
- Vevey 1968, Arts et lettres, Musée de Vevey, no. 13, as 'Nature–Morte, 1915' (label verso).

Literature:
Georges Peillex: Wilhelm Gimmi. Catalogue raisonné des peintures, Zurich 1972, p. 43, no. 91 (ill.).

The canvas unlined. Framed. The work is overall in very good condition. With scattered individual pigment losses (see ill). Soiled. No retouching visible under UV light.