Provenance
1The estate of the artist Paris • 1917–1918 Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier (1ère vente), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (6–8 May 1918), no. 111 (ill.).
2Alphonse Kann St-Germain-en-Laye & London • 1918 until [d.] 1948 Acquired at the above sale for FF 32.000, Annotated copy of the above sale catalogue at the Musée d'Orsay (Documentation), Paris.
3Confiscated by the «Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg» (ERR no. Ka 989), turned over to Hermann Göring and traded by Göring for Old Master paintings to Gustav Rochlitz 23 March 1941 Nancy H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, no. D31.
4Traded by Hans Wendland to Galerie Fischer in exchange for works of art Lucerne 1941/42 Yeide, as above, n. (3); Esther Tisa Francini etc., Fluchtgut, Raubgut, Der Transfer von Kulturgütern in und über die Schweiz 1933–1945 und die Frage der Restitution, Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz–Zweiter Weltkrieg (ed.), Zurich 2001, pp. 106 (n. 267), 146 (n. 457), 285 (n. *1 and *3), 286 (n. *7).
5Purchased by Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 February 1942 Purchased from Galerie Fischer for CHF 120.000, AStEGB, Letter from Emil Bührle to his lawyer, Dr. Walther Huber, Zurich, 22 August 1947. The figure corresponds to the amount which Bührle later claimed from Fischer in his lawsuit against the latter, and whilst Fischer refused to acknowledge obligation for reimbursement in principle, the figures as such where never questioned. Therefore, these figures defined the amounts which Fischer had to pay back to Bührle after the Federal Court came to the conclusion that Bührle had acquired the paintings in good faith, AStEGB, Swiss Federal Court, Kammer zur Beurteilung von Raubgutklagen / Chambre des actions en revendication de biens spoliés, Lausanne, Verdict of 5 July 1951 (typescript).
6Restituted to Alphonse Kann5 July 1948 AStEGB, Swiss Federal Court, Kammer zur Beurteilung von Raubgutklagen / Chambre des actions en revendication de biens spoliés, Lausanne, Request for restitution of artworks by Alphonse Kann, London, vs. Emil Bührle, Zurich, Verdict of 5 July 1948 (typescript), stating that Bührle accepts restitution of 3 artworks to Kann, including Degas, Madame Camus au piano.
7The estate of Alphonse Kann London & Paris 1948–1951 AStEGB, 2 Records with handwritten notes by Bührle, concerning two visits of Maître J. Metthey, Paris, acting on behalf of the heirs of Alphonse Kann, at Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon Bührle & Co., 25 January 1951 and 15 February 1951.
8Repurchased from the estate of Alphonse Kann by Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 February 1951 with Bührle until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired through Maître J. Metthey, Paris, along with two paintings by Degas for £ 24.000 altogether, Records as above, n. (7). On the first record, Bührle notes that the asking price of the Kann heirs is ca. £ 30.000 for the three works Degas, Madame Camus, Degas, Danseuses and the pastel by Manet (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 32, 35, 65). A handwritten note by Bührle attached to the second record states that Metthey has accepted £ 24.000 for the lot on 3rd February 1951.
9Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 32
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, 4 vol., Paris, 1946-1949.
Exhibitions
1923Exposition au profit des laboratoires Galerie Les Arts (rue de la Ville-L'Evêque) •Paris • 1923 no. 181.
1924Exposition Degas, Peintures, pastels et dessins, sculptures, eaux-fortes, lithographies et monotypes Galerie Georges Petit • Paris • 1924 no. 34.
1931Exposition d'œuvres importantes de grands maîtres du 19e siècle Galerie Paul Rosenberg • Paris • 1931 no. 25.
1931Degas, Portraitiste, sculpteur Orangerie des Tuileries • Paris • 1931 no. 48.
1937Chefs-d’œuvre de l'art français Palais National des Arts (Palais de Tokio) • Paris • 1937 no. 300.
1951Degas Kunstmuseum Bern • 1951–52 no. 13.
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. 155.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 5.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 38.
1959De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d’œuvre français des collections suisses Petit Palais • Paris • 1959 no. 42.
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. 29.
1994Degas, Die Portraits Kunsthaus Zurich • Kunsthalle Tübingen • 1994–95 no. 101.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 32.
2017Gefeiert & verspottet, Französische Malerei 1820–1880 Kunsthaus Zurich • 2017–18 no. 36.
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. 7.
References
1917Walter Sickert «Degas» in Burlington Magazine (31) • 1917 • p. 186.
1918Arsène Alexandre «Essai sur Monsieur Degas» in Les Arts (166) • 1918 • p. 12 (ill.).
1919Paul Lafond Degas vol. 2 • Paris • 1919 • p. 12.
1924Paul Jamot Degas Paris • 1924 • pp. 50–51.
1924Paul-André Lemoisne «Artistes contemporains, Edgar Degas, A propos d'une exposition récente» in Revue de l'art (46) • 1924 • p. 24.
1935Arsène Alexandre «Degas, Nouveaux aperçus» in L’Art et les Artistes (29) • 1935 • p. 150.
1940Reginald Howard Wilenski Modern French Painters London • 1940 • p. 330 (21944; 31945; 41947).
1946Paul-André Lemoisne Degas et son œuvre vol. 1 • Paris • 1946 • pp. 56, 58, 62 • vol. 2, Peintures et pastels 1853–1882, Notices et reproductions du no. 1 au no. 716bis • Paris • 1946 • no. 207 (ill.; 2New York 1984).
1954Paul-André Lemoisne Degas et son œuvre Paris • 1954 • pp. 54, 58, 60.
1953Doris Wild «Private Kunstsammlungen in der Schweiz, Die Sammlung Emil Bührle in Zürich» in Das Kunstwerk (7) • no. 6 • 1953 • pp. 19 (ill.), 27.
1954Georg Schmidt «La Suisse et la peinture française des XIXe et XXe siècles» in Revue économique franco-suisse (33) • 1954 • p. 347 (ill.).
1956François Daulte «Le chef-d'œuvre d'une vie: la collection Buhrle» in Connaissance des Arts (52) • 15 June 1956 • p. 32 (ill.).
1958Max Huggler «Die Sammlung Bührle im Zürcher Kunsthaus» in Werk (45) • 1958 • p. 371.
1959André Chamson • François Daulte De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d’œuvre d’art français des collections suisses Paris • 1959 (ill.).
1959René Elvin «Collector Extraordinary: The Bührle Collection and the New Zurich Kunsthaus» in The Studio (158) • 1959 • p. 54.
1959Denys Sutton «The Bührle Collection» in The Connoisseur (143, no. 577) • April 1959 • pp. 145 – 146, fig. 7.
1960Eduard Hüttinger Degas Cologne & Milan • 1960 • pp. 17 (ill.), 49 (2Munich & Paris 1977, pp. 19 [ill.], 50).
1962Jean Sutherland Boggs Portraits by Degas Berkeley & Los Angeles • 1962 • pp. 22, 26, 31, 59, 111, fig. 65.
1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) • New York • 1963 • p. 219.
1970Fiorella Minervino • Franco Russoli L'opera completa di Degas Milan • 1970 • no. 245 (ill.; 21978; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk von Degas, Lucerne etc. 1970 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Degas, Barcelona 1972 • French edition: Jacques Lassaigne, Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'œuvre peint de Degas, Paris 1974; 21988).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 43 (ill.; 21986).
1976Theodore Reff The Artist's Mind New York • 1976 • pp. 124, 316 (n. 102).
1977Norma Broude «Degas's 'Misogyny’» in Art Bulletin (59) • 1977 • p. 101.
1978Sophie Monneret L'Impressionnisme et son époque, Dictionnaire international illustré vol. 1 • Paris • 1978 • p. 103 (ill.; entry for Dr. Camus), 163 (entry for Degas).
1981Eugénie de Keyser Degas: Réalité et Métaphore Louvain-la-Neuve • 1981 • pp. 50, 94.
1986Denys Sutton Edgar Degas, Life and Work New York • 1986 • p. 73–74, fig. 56 (French edition: Degas, Vie et œuvre, Fribourg • German edition: Degas, Leben und Werk, Fribourg & Munich, pp. 69–70, fig. 56).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 23 (ill.)–24 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1997Colin Bailey Renoir's Portraits, Impressions of an Age New Haven & London • 1997 • p. 58.
1998Théodore Duret Critique d’avant-garde (exh. cat.) • Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts • Paris • 1998 • p. 34.
2001Esther Tisa Francini etc. Fluchtgut, Raubgut, Der Transfer von Kulturgütern in und über die Schweiz 1933–1945 und die Frage der Restitution Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz–Zweiter Weltkrieg (ed.) • Zurich • 2001 • pp. 106 (n. 267), 146 (n. 457), 285 (n. *1 and *3), 286 (n. *7), 509.
2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 47 • (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2004Degas, Classico e moderno (exh. cat.) • Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2004–05 • p. 218 (entry for no. 21).
2009Nancy H. Yeide Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection Dallas • 2009 • no. D31 (ill.).
2009Jill DeVonyar • Richard Kendall «Making Music: Family and Friends» in Degas & Music (exh. cat.) • Hyde Collection • Glenn Falls (New York) • 2009 • p. 58, fig. 15.
2011Ville du Havre (ed.) De Delacroix à Marquet, Donation Senn-Foulds Musée d'art moderne André Malraux • Paris & Le Havre • 2011 • pp. 187, 190, fig. 83.1.
2013André Dombrowski Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life Berkeley etc. • 2013 • pp. 163, 280 (n. 82), fig. 67.
2019Degas à l'Opéra (exh.cat.) • Musée d'Orsay • Paris • 2019 • pp. 78–82, fig. 79 (English edition: Degas at the Opéra, [exh. cat.] National Gallery of Art • Washington • 2020).
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. 187 (ill.).