Provenance
1Klein Paris Important French Masters of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, (exh. cat.) Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London 1953, no. 17.
2Adolphe Basler Paris Exh. cat. as above, n. (1).
3Bing (?) Paris AStEGB, Inventory Card Modigliani, Portrait of Dr Devraigne.
4Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1953 AStEGB, Sale confirmation from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], signed by F. K. Lloyd, to Emil Bührle, 1 October 1953, regarding a group of 10 artworks sold to Bührle for a total sum of £ 40.000 (= CHF 480.000), including Modigliani, Portrait of Dr Devraigne. Payment of this amount to be made in two installments, £ 27.000 from a Swiss account in London to Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, and £ 13.000 at an exchange rate of 12 CHF=1 £ (= CHF 156.000) to be transferred to Trafo's account with UBS Zurich.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 2 October 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 3.000 (with a 6% discount), Sale confirmation as above, with prices for each artwork handwritten by Emil Bührle; AStEGB, Payment order from Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 1 October 1953 for the sum of CHF 156.000 to be transferred to Trafo, Vaduz, and Confirmation of execution of payment from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zürich, 2 October 1953.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 70.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Exhibitions
1953Important French Masters of the XIXth and XXth Centuries Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1953 no. 17.
1955Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi Kunsthalle Bern • 1955 no. 3.
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. 280.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle, Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 107.
1990ModiglianiFondation Pierre Gianadda • Martigny • 1990
References
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 132 (ill.; 21986).
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 138 (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. 318 (ill.).