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A WINTER SCENE GENEVA (1942)

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HERBERT LEON MARCEL THEURILLAT (SWISS 1896-1987)

A WINTER SCENE GENEVA (1942)

Oil on canvas Signed (lower right)

60 x 50cm (23½ x 19½ in.) Canvas

Provenance: Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965), Winterthur, Switzerland, possibly purchased from below exhibition Thence by descent to The Hon. Mrs James Tennant

Exhibited: Possibly Zürich, Kunsthaus, March 1942, titled as 'Poussière de neige',

Herbert Léon Marcel Theurillat was a Swiss painter, engraver and designer, born March 12, 1896, in Saint-Imier and died in Collonge-Bellerive, December 15, 1987. Having moved to Geneva in 1919, he became professor of composition at the city's Fine Arts in 1941. From 1951 to 1956, he was a member of the Federal Fine Arts Commission. In 1968, the city of Geneva organized and sponsored its "30 Years of Painting Retrospective" at the Rath Museum. £500