Provenance
1Dr. Jacques Soubies Paris• by 1940 Catalogue […] des tableaux modernes […] composant la collection de feu le Docteur Jacques Soubies, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 December 1940, no. 42; Archives de Paris, Carton D118E3 81 (1940, Louis de Cagny, Etienne Ader).
2Bignou GalleryParis & New York • 1940 Bought at the above sale for FF 7'800, Archives de Paris, as above, n. (1), Procès verbal.
3Private collection USA AStEGB, Inventory Card for Dufy, Arcades à Vallauris.
4Dr. Peter Nathan New York Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • 1954 AStEGB, Payment order from Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 4 May 1954, for the sum of $ 92.500 for four paintings being purchased from Dr. Peter Nathan, New York, through Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich. Attached to this payment order is a typed list, initialed by Emil Bührle and indicating payment through Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, on 4 May 1954 for the four paintings, including the present painting and the Crucifixion (Emil Bührle Collection Inv. 148).
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 4 May 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from Dr. Peter Nathan, New York, and Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, for $ 8.500, AStEGB, Confirmation of execution of payment from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 4 May 1954.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 41.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 4 vol., Geneva, 1972-1977.
Exhibitions
1958Raoul Dufy 1877–1953 Kunstmuseum Winterthur • 1958 no. 12.
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. 276.
2008Raoul Dufy, Le plaisir Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris • Paris • 2008–09 no. 71.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 41.
References
1927Christian Zervos «Œuvres récentes de Raoul Dufy» in Cahiers d'art (2) 1927, p. 134 (ill., photo-graph taken before signature).
1930Marcelle Berr de Turique Raoul Dufy Paris • 1930 • p. 179 (ill.).
1973Maurice Laffaille Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint vol. 2 • Geneva • 1973 • no. 483 (ill.).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 123 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 32 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 120 (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. 376 (ill.).