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Émile Bonny, also known as Milous, was a Swiss painter whose work spans landscape, the figure and decoration. His training in Lausanne with Violette Diserens accompanied a preference for southern landscapes and a progressive simplification of composition. Views of Lake Geneva, Liguria and Venice place this exploration within varied settings. He also addressed portraiture, couples and motherhood, in both painting and printmaking. On a larger scale, the panels made in 1956 for the Chez Félicie restaurant in Morges develop a narrative world linked to Rabelais’s Gargantua. This range of formats brings the intimacy of an individual painting into dialogue with the more expansive presence of decoration conceived for a shared social setting.
This profile brings together identity references for Emile Bonny and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Genève Enchères · Dobiaschofsky
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Oil on panel
Port d'Ouchy
huile sur panneau
Catalogue period : 2020-12-09
Published result : 400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 200–300
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Oil on canvas
"Le Grand Canal à Venise".
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2020-11-07
Published result : 60 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 300
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"Crédit Suisse et derrière Bourg à Lausanne".
Öl auf Lwd.
Date to be documented
Published result : 480 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600
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"Vue sur les jardins Anglais et le port d′Ouchy".
Öl auf Lwd.
Date to be documented
Published result : 280 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 200
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