Paul Gauguin
Idyll in Tahiti
1901
Idylle à Tahiti
Oil on canvas
74.5 x 94.5 cm
Signed & dated lower right: P. Gauguin 1901
Wildenstein 598 (PG6FYZ)
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris 1964. See also: Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1891–1903, Wildenstein Plattner Institute (ed.), https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/artworks/gauguin/introduction (Wildenstein Plattner)
1Arthur Fontaine Paris • Wildenstein no. 598.
2Joseph Hessel Paris Archive Kunstverein Basel, Letter from Arthur Fontaine, Paris, to Dr. Wilhelm Barth [curator of the Kunsthalle], Basel, 18 April 1928, answering a loan request for his Gauguin paintings by stating that he has sold the one that was left to him after a partition of the family collection to J. Hessel, Paris (State Archives Basel-Stadt, Archive of the Basler Kunstverein, PA 888a, N 6 [1], 239 I).
3Bernheim Paris Wildenstein no. 598.
4Edwin M. Otterbourg New York Wildenstein no. 598.
5Josef StranskyNew York • before 1925 Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making, New York & Washington D.C. • 1926 • p. 36, fig. 44
6Vandyck Gallery Washington D.C. • by 1925 The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the E. G. Bührle Collection, (exh. cat.), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. etc., 1990/91, entry for cat. no. 56, based upon information then received from the archive of the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
7Duncan Phillips Washington D.C. • 1925–1936 Acquired from the above, exh. cat. as above, n. (5).
8Newhouse Gallery New York • by 1936 Acquired from the above, exh. cat. as above, n. (5). An involvement of the Knoedler Gallery, New York, is suggested by the fact that the painting, in 1935, was lent via M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, to an exhibition, One Hundred Years of French Painting 1820–1920, (exh. cat.) William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art & Mary Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City 1935, no. 26.
9Aline Barnsdall Beverly Hills • California • until [d.] 1946 Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica (California) Knoedler Gallery Archive, Stock Book 10, p. 84, no. A5035.
10The Estate of Aline Barnsdall1946–1952 Stock Book as above, n. (7); the stock book indicates a joint ownership with David Devine Guardianship.
11M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York • 1952 Stock Book as above, n. (7).
12Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • 1952 Acquired from the above on 7 August 1952, Stock Book as above, n. (7).
13Emil Bührle Zurich • 7 August 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, AStEGB, Entry Book I, 15 July 1952, identifying Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, as the consignor; Inventory Card Gauguin, Idylle à Tahiti, identifying Dr. Arthur Kauffmann, London, as the seller. Although the date of purchase given on the card is 25 July 1952, the date recorded here is the date of the settlement of accounts by Nathan with Knoedler. The nature of Kauffmann's involvement in the transaction remains unspecified.
14Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 45
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris 1964. See also: Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1891–1903, Wildenstein Plattner Institute (ed.), https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/artworks/gauguin/introduction (Wildenstein Plattner)
1906Salon d'automne, 4ème exposition, Œuvres de GauguinGrand Palais, Paris • 1906 no. 208.
1928A survey of French Paintings from Chardin to Derain Phillips Memorial Art Gallery • Washington D.C. • 1928.
1930Sources of Modern Art Phillips Memorial Art Gallery • Washington D.C. • 1930 no. 13.
1931French Painting from Manet to Derain Phillips Memorial Art Gallery • Washington D.C. • 1931 no. 81.
1935One Hundred Years of French Painting 1820–1920 William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art & Mary Atkins Museum of Art • Kansas City • 1935 no. 26.
1936Paul Gauguin 1848–1903, A Retrospective Loan Exhibition Wildenstein Galleries • New York • 1936 no. 44.
1936Paul Gauguin 1848–1903 The Boston Chapter of the Museum of Modern Art • New York (Fogg Art Museum) • Cambridge (Massachusetts) • 1936 no. 43.
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. 250.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 60.
1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100 th 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. 56.
2005Gauguin, Van Gogh, L'avventura del colore nuovo Museo di Santa Giulia • Brescia • 2005–06 no. 145.
2007Paul Gauguin, Artist of Myth and Dream (Paul Gauguin, Artista di mito e sogno) Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2007–08 no. 118.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 45.
2011Gauguin, Polynesia Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen • Seattle Art Museum, Seattle • 2011 no. 300 (exhibited in Copenhagen only).
2015Paul Gauguin Fondation Beyeler • Riehen/Basel • 2015 pp. 142–143.
2016Van Gogh and Gauguin, Reality and Imagination Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo • Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya • 2016–17 no. 67.
1926Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making New York & Washington D.C. • 1926 • p. 36, fig. 44.
1931Duncan Phillips The Artist Sees Differently New York • 1931 • vol. 2, fig. 52.
1955Lotte Siemer «Paul Gauguin, Strandlandschaft auf Tahiti» in Kunsthandel (8) • 1955 • p. 13 (ill.).
1961Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 25 Jahre 1936–1961 Winterthur • 1961 • pp. 48–49 (ill.).
1964Georges Wildenstein Gauguin vol. 1 Catalogue • Paris • 1964 • no. 598.
1972Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922–1972 Zurich • 1972 • no. 92 (ill.).
1972Gabriele Mandel Sugana L'opera completa di Gauguin Milan • 1972 • no. 425 (ill.; 2 1981; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Gauguin, Lucerne etc. 1972 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica di Gauguin, Barcelona 1973 • French edition; Tout l'œuvre peint de Gauguin, Paris 1981).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 80 (ill.; 2 1986).
1978Sophie Monneret L'Impressionnisme et son époque, Dictionnaire international illustré vol. 1 • Paris • 1978 • p. 235 (entry for Gauguin).
1995Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle Zürich • Bern • 1994 • p. 45 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1997The Phillips Collection in the Making: 1920–1930 (exh. cat.) The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. • Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. etc. • 1997–98 • p. 93.
2004Jean-Yves Tréhin Gauguin, Tahiti et la photographie Musée de Tahiti et des Îles (Punaauia) • 2004 • p. 158 (ill.).
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 123 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2004Eliza E. Rathbone, «Voir la beauté: une vision d'ensemble; Seeing Beautifully: A Vision of the Whole» in Chefs-d'œuvres de la Phillips Collection Washington (exh. cat.) • Fondation Pierre Gianadda • Martigny • 2004 • p.
18–19, fig. 5 (the painting hanging in Duncan Phillips' Little Library).
2010Belinda Thomson «Earthly Paradise» in Gauguin, Maker of Myth (exh. cat.) Tate Modern • London etc. • 2010 • p. 207, fig. 137.
2013Ingo F. Walther Paul Gauguin 1848–1903, Bilder eines Aussteigers Cologne • 2013 • pp. 86–87 (ill.).
2018The Phillips Collection, A Modern Vision, (exh. cat.) Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum • Tokyo • 2018–19 • p. 136, fig. 3.
2021Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., (ed.) Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1891–1903 Texts by Richard R. Brettell and Elpida Vouitsis, Research by Françoise Marnoni, Evgenia Kuzmina, and Jennifer Gimblett, [URL] (accessed on 8 July 2021), no. PG6FYZ.
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. 246 (ill.).