Pablo Picasso
Barcelona by night
1903
Barcelone la nuit
Oil on canvas
67 x 50 cm
Signed lower right: Picasso
Daix IX.3
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et dessins, 33 vol., Paris, 1932-1978.
Pierre Daix, Georges Boudaille, Picasso, Période bleue et rose, Neuchâtel, 1966.
Provenance
1The artist's mother AStEGB, Inventory Card Picasso, Barcelone la nuit.
2Georges Wildenstein Paris & New York Daix no. IX.3.
3Laura Shedd (Mrs. Charles H. Schweppe) Lake Forest • Chicago • [d.1937] Daix no. IX.3; this entry is corroborated by a label of the Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, on the stretcher of the painting with the name of Mrs. C. Schweppe.
4E. & A. Silberman Inc. New York • by 1955 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 10 July 1955; three stamps and labels on the stretcher of the painting indicate that the painting may have been shown at the Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, and the Dalzell Hattfield Galleries, Los Angeles, previously to being sold to the Silberman Galleries.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 July 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Entry Book as above, n. (4), with reference to date of purchase.
6The estate of Emil Bührle Zurich • 1956–1967 The artworks that were not given to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection in 1960 were divided among Emil Bührles’s son, Dr. Dieter Bührle, and his daughter, Hortense Anda-Bührle in 1967.
7Dr. Dieter Bührle Zurich • 1967 until [d.] 2012 Son of Emil Bührle and, in 1960, along with his mother Charlotte Bührle-Schalk and his sister Hortense (Anda-)Bührle, one of the three founders of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, where he served on the Board from 1960 to 2012.
8Bequest of Dr. Dieter Bührle to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection 2012 Inv. 181.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et dessins, 33 vol., Paris, 1932-1978.
Pierre Daix, Georges Boudaille, Picasso, Période bleue et rose, Neuchâtel, 1966.
Exhibitions
1931An Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by the Masters of Post-Impressionism City Art Museum • St. Louis (MO) • 1931 no. 25.
1955Picasso 1900–1955 Haus der Kunst, Munich • Rheinisches Museum, Cologne • Kunsthalle Hamburg • 1955–56 no. 4.
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. 305.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 75.
1963Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Französische Meister von Delacroix bis Matisse Kunstmuseum Lucerne • 1963 no. 70.
1984Der junge Picasso, Frühwerk und Blaue Periode Kunstmuseum Bern • 1984–85 no. 182.
2001Picasso und die Schweiz Kunstmuseum Bern • 2001 no. 14.
2007Barcelona 1900 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam • 2007–08 pp. 64 (ill.), 189.
2010Picasso versus Rusiñol Museu Picasso • Barcelona • 2010 pp. 275, 291 (ill.).
2011Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Angry Young Men, The Birth of Modernity Palazzo Strozzi • Florence • 2011 no. 4.12.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 39.
2018Picasso, Bleu et roseMusée d'Orsay • Musée national Picasso • Paris • 2018–19 no. 135.
References
1948Jaime Sabartés Picasso, An Intimate Portrait New York • 1948 • p. 86.
1966Pierre Daix • Georges Boudailles Picasso 1900–1906, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint Neuchâtel • 1966 • no. IX.3 (ill.).
1995Pierre Daix Dictionnaire Picasso Paris • 1995 • p. 92 (Le nouveau Dictionnaire Picasso, Paris 2012).
2011The Picasso Project (ed.)Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, The Blue Period 1902–1904 Barcelona and Paris San Francisco • 2011 • no. 1903-129 (ill.).
2019Picasso, Blaue und Rosa Periode, (exh. cat.) Fondation Beyeler • Riehen/Basel • 2019, p. 109, fig. 4 (Engl. ed.: Picasso, Blue and Rose Periods).
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. 464 (ill.).