Provenance
1Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler Paris Label on the back of the stretcher: «No 2000 / Galerie Kahnweiler / 28 rue Vignon»; Twentieth Century Masters, (exh. cat.) Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London 1955, no. 4. The painting was most probably sold by Kahnweiler before 1914, since it cannot be identified in the catalogues of the forced sales of the confiscated holdings of the Kahnweiler Gallery in Paris 1921–1923.
2P. Lhote Paris AStEGB, Inventory Card Braque, Homme au violon.
3Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London AStEGB, Invoice from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], made out to Emil Bührle, 31 January 1955, for two paintings, including Braque, Homme au violon.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 February 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, along with the painting Le Numéro d'illusionniste by Edouard Vuillard (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 113), for a total amount of CHF 189.000, Invoice as above, n. (3), and AStEGB, Letter from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 3 February 1955, confirming transfer of the above amount.
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 9.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Maeght (ed.), Catalogue de l’œuvre de Georges Braque 1907–1957, Peintures, 7 vol., Paris, 1959-1982.
Exhibitions
1955Twentieth Century Masters Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1955 no. 4.
1956G. Braque Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • Tate Gallery, London • 1956 no. 29.
1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 299.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 7.
1959De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d'œuvre français des collections suisses Petit Palais • Paris • 1959 no. 13.
1973Georges Braque Orangerie des Tuileries • Paris • 1973–74 no. 42.
1989Picasso and Braque, Pioneering Cubism Museum of Modern Art • New York • 1989–90 p. 223 (ill.).
1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 84.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 9.
2013Cubisti, Cubismo Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2013 no. 19.
2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 20.
2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 60.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 55.
References
1932George Isarlov Georges Braque Paris • 1932 • no. 138 (?).
1959Umbro Apollonio Fauves et cubistes Bergamo & Paris •,1959 • p. 51 (ill.; German edition: Fauves und Kubisten, Bergamo & Stuttgart 1959).
1959John Golding Cubism, A History and an Analysis London • 1959 • pp. 90–91, fig. 33.
1960John Richardson G. Braque Greenwich (Connecticut) & London • 1960 • fig. 11 (German edition: Würzburg & Vienna 1960 • Italian edition: Milan 1960 • French edition: Paris 1961).
1961Jean Leymarie Braque Geneva • 1961 • p. 52 (English edition: Cleveland [Ohio] • German edition: Geneva).
1968Edwin Mullins Braque London • 1968 • p. 71, fig. 47 (American edition: The Art of Georges Braque, New York 1968).
1969John Berger The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays London & New York • 1969 • fig. 3.
1969Schätze aus Museen und Sammlungen in Zürich Zurich • 1969 • pp. 312–313 (ill.).
1971Marco Valsecchi • Massimo Carrà L'opera completa di Braque dalla scomposizione cubista al recupero dell'oggetto 1908–1929 Milan • 1971 • no. 82 (ill.; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk des Braque von der kubistischen Zerlegung bis zur Wiedergewinnung des Gegenstandes 1908–1929, Lucerne etc. • French Edition: Tout l'œuvre peint de Braque 1908–1929, Paris 1973).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 126 (ill.; 21986).
1982Nicole Worms de Romilly • Jean Laude Catalogue de l'œuvre de Georges Braque, Peintures 1907–1957 Maeght (ed.) • vol. 1 Braque, Le cubisme, Fin 1907–1914 Paris • 1982 • no. 125 (ill.).
1990William Rubin Picasso und Braque, Die Geburt des Kubismus (exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Basel) • Munich • 1990 • p. 16 (ill.), fig. 224.
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 108 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2007Bernice B. Rose (ed.) Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism (exh. cat.) • Pace Wildenstein • New York • 2007 • p. 106 (ill. lower right).
2011Harry Cooper «Braque's Ovals» in Picasso and Braque, The Cubist Experiment 1910–1912 New Haven & London • 2011 • pp. 46–47 (ill.), 55.
2015Federica Rovati L'arte del primo Novecento Turin • 2015 • fig. 4.
2015Sebastian Zeidler Form as Revolt, Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art Ithaca (NY) • 2015 • pp. 108–111, fig. 3.4, plate I & II, upper left.
2017Linda Goddard «Cubism and Silence» in The Cubism Seminars National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (ed.) • New Haven & London • 2017 • pp. 87–88, fig. 6.
2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.), Munich 2021, no. 426 (ill.).