25-151 Cuno Amiet Swiss 1949 Original Lithograph

This 1949 original lithograph by Cuno Amiet was purchased from the Southampton, NY estate of a family that owned many Swiss and Austrian works of art. This multi-color stone lithograph is signed in pencil C. Amiet and editioned #1/200. Signed in the plate C.A. 49.

The original gold leaf minimalist frame is in very good condition. It has the original gallery label on the verso. La Maison Du Cadre, Rue de A. Dessiex la Paix 1, Lausanne.

Cuno Amiet (1868–1961) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. As the first Swiss painter to give precedence to colour in composition, he was a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland.

Amiet created more than 4,000 paintings, of which more than 1,000 are self-portraits. His numerous landscape paintings depict many winter scenes, gardens and fruit harvests. While Amiet took up themes of expressionism, his works retain a sense of harmony of colour grounded in the French tradition. His late work of the 1940s and 50s is focused on more abstract concepts of space and light, characterized by dots of colour and a pastel brilliance. (Wikipedia)