Edouard Vuillard
The Vaudeville Show Magician
ca. 1895
Le Numéro d'illusionniste
Oil on cardboard, on wood
49 x 39 cm
Signed lower right: E. Vuillard
Salomon/Cogeval III-50
Antoine Salomon, Guy Cogeval, Mathias Chivot, Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, 3 vol., Paris & Milan, 2003.
Provenance
1Sergei Shchukin Moscow • until 1900 Sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris (24 March 1900), no. 23, Salomon/Cogeval no. III-50.
2Bernheim Jeune Paris • by 1905 Inventory no. 10469, Salomon/Cogeval no. III-50.
3Edouard Vuillard Paris • 1905 Acquired from the above on 3 May 1905 for FF 472.50, Salomon/Cogeval no. III-50.
4Prince Antoine Bibesco Paris • [d.] 1951 Salomon/Cogeval no. III-50.
5Mrs. Priscilla Hodgson, née Countess Bibesco London & Paris Daughter of the above, AStEGB, Reply from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, to an enquiry by Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle collection], 28 May 1955, regarding provenance of seven paintings acquired by Emil Bührle, including Vuillard, Le Numéro d'illusionniste.
6Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1955 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 Vuillard, Le Numéro d'illusionniste.
7Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 February 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, along with the painting Homme au violon by Georges Braque (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 9), for a total amount of CHF 189.000, Invoice as above, n. (6), and AStEGB, Letter from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 3 February 1955, confirming transfer of the above amount.
8Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 113.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Antoine Salomon, Guy Cogeval, Mathias Chivot, Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, 3 vol., Paris & Milan, 2003.
Exhibitions
1955Twentieth Century Masters Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1955 no. 69.
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. 266.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 63.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 173.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 68.
1972Weltkulturen und moderne Kunst, Die Begegnung der europäischen Kunst und Musik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert mit Asien, Afrika, Ozeanien, Afro- und Indo-Amerika Haus der Kunst • München • 1972 no. 899.
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. 72.
2003Edouard Vuillard (1868–1940) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal • Grand Palais, Paris • Royal Academy of Art, London • 2003–04 no. 62 (exhibited in Paris and London only).
2008Édouard Vuillard Staatliche Kunsthalle • Karlsruhe • 2008–09 no. 73.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 113.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 40.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 33.
References
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 105 (ill.; 21986).
1993Guy Cogeval Vuillard, Le temps détourné Paris • 1993 • p. 43 (ill.).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 50 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2003Antoine Salomon • Guy Cogeval Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels Paris & Milan • 2003 • vol. 1 • no. III-50 (ill.).
2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 163 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
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. 427 (ill.).