Beautiful large woodcarving of a Rooster. Japan, early 20th Century.

Striking art deco self portrait of the Hungarian artist Mihaly Erdelyi with the figures of two women in the background.

Jörg Schulthess was born in Basel, the son of a father from Emmenthal and a sephardic Jewish mother who had emigrated from Italy. Schuldhess was a close friend of Jean Dubuffet and became interested in and influenced by Art Brut, particularly the work of Adolf Wolfli.

Alexandre-Louis d’ Albert-Durade
(Swiss, 1804-1886)
Alexandre-Louis d’Albert Durade was a Genevan portraitist who also served as the Director fo the Athénée Museum.  Among his best known works is a portrait of the British novelist George Eliot, who stayed with the artist during her travels through continental Europe in the mid-19th Century.
Portraits of the brothers Henri [...]