WILHELM GIMMI

WILHELM GIMMI
(Zurich 1886–1965 Chexbres)Femme mettant ses bas. 1927.Oil on canvas.Signed and dated lower right: Gimmi 1927.82 × 55 cm.Provenance:
- With Galerie Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris 1963, no. 245.
- Private collection, Zurich, acquired at the above gallery.
- Private collection, Switzerland.

Exhibited:
Paris 1927, Galerie Druet, October 1927.

Literature:
Georges Peillex: Wilhelm Gimmi. Catalogue raisonné des peintures, Zurich 1972, p. 95, no. 558 (with ill.).

The canvas unlined. Framed. The work is overall in good condition. A small hole visible in the centre of the chest (see ill). Small colour loss lower left (see ill). Retouched. Otherwise no retouching visible under UV light.