Provenance
1Dr. Peter Nathan New York Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • 1954 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 20 May 1954, identifying Dr. Peter Nathan as the consignor.
2Emil Bührle Zurich • 13 July 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from Dr. Fritz Nathan, father of Dr. Peter Nathan, for $ 24.000, AStEGB, Payment order made by Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 9 July 1954 for the sum of $ 40.000 to be transferred to Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich. Attached to this payment order is a handwritten note by Emil Bührle, dated 9 July 1954 and listing 3 paintings with their respective prices: «Renoir, Blumen, 24 / Pissarro, Strickerin, 13 / Vlaminck, Stillleben, 8» (Emil Bührle Collection Inv. 88, 119, 111) for a total sum of $ 45.000, from which $ 5.000 are to be subtracted against the return of a «Vlaminck, Intérieur»; Letter from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 13 July 1954, confirming payment of $ 40.000 to Dr. Fritz Nathan.
3Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 88.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 5 vol., Paris, 2007-2014.
Exhibitions
2005Blumenmythos, Von Vincent van Gogh bis Jeff Koons; Flower Myth, Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons Fondation Beyeler • Riehen/Basel • 2005 no. 139.
2008Renoir, La maturità tra classico e moderno Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2008 no. 22.
2010Renoir, Tradition and Innovation National Art Center, Tokyo • National Museum of Art, Osaka 2010 no. 58 (exhibited in Osaka only).
2014Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Revoir Renoir Fondation Pierre Gianadda • Martigny • 2014 no. 36.
References
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 64 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 40 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 96 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog; Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2009Guy-Patrice Dauberville • Michel Dauberville Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles vol. 2 1882–1894 Paris • 2009 • no. 1659 (ill.).
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. 403 (ill.).