Benjamin Vautier
Born in 1895.
Died in 1974.
Swiss · Twentieth-century Genevan figurative painting, spanning landscape, still life and figure study.
His records appear in authority databases—SIKART and ULAN—and ULAN lists his nationality as Swiss.
The records describe a diverse practice encompassing interiors, portraits, landscapes, and still lifes; ULAN also mentions him as an illustrator. According to ULAN, he was active in Düsseldorf and Geneva.
He belonged to a lineage of artists: the sources present him as the son of Otto Adolphe Paul Vautier and the grandson of Benjamin Vautier l’Aîné. The study devoted to Otto Vautier and the family records note connections with local painting circles (for example, Savièse), information useful for situating the family’s documentary context.
A work documented under the name Benjamin Vautier, entitled “Homme assis sur un banc, hommage à Otto Vautier”, is described as charcoal on paper, signed, measuring 39 × 30 cm. The sale notice indicates a provenance linked to Galerie Moos (no. 935) and the inclusion of the lot in an auction held in Geneva in September 2017.
This auction record attests to the circulation on the art market of works attributed to the painter, as documented in the file.
For documentary identification, the authority records associate the artist with SIKART ID 9701187 and ULAN ID (Getty) 500019864.
The works by Benjamin Vautier presented by Swiss Art Gallery extend this artistic journey and take their place naturally within this corpus.
