Pablo Picasso
Flowers and Lemons
1941
Fleurs et citrons
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm
Signed upper right: Picasso; dated on the back: 8. VII. 1941
Zervos, XI-160
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
1Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1953 AStEGB, Invoice from Trafo Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], made out to Emil Bührle, 20 April 1953 for four paintings (two views of Venice by Canaletto, Flowers and Lemons by Picasso, and The Prodigal Son by Puvis de Chavannes, Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 138, 139, 77, 42), and including Flowers and Lemons by Picasso) for the total sum of CHF 420.000.
2Emil Bührle Zurich • 20 April 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, AStEGB, Receipt for the total amount of CHF 420.000 for all 4 paintings as above n. (1), signed by F. K. Lloyd [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], 20 April 1953.
3Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 77.
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
1953Important French Masters of the XIXth and XXth Centuries Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1953 no. 22.
1955Picasso 1900–1955 Haus der Kunst, Munich • Rheinisches Museum, Cologne • Kunsthalle Hamburg • 1955–56 no. 86.
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. 308.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 77.
2013Cubisti, Cubismo Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome 2013 no. 71.
2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 23.
2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 63.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 57.
References
1942Joan Merli Picasso Buenos Aires • 1942 • fig. 564 (21948).
1960Christian Zervos Pablo Picasso vol. 11 ,Œuvres de 1940 à 1941 Paris • 1960 • fig. 71, no. 160 (21984).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 139 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 52 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1998Christian Bührle «Die Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle in Zürich» in Die Kunst zu sammeln, Schweizer Kunstsammlungen seit 1848 • L'art de collectionner, Collections d'art en Suisse depuis 1848 • L'arte di collezionare, Collezioni svizzere d'arte dal 1848 Swiss Institute for Art Research (ed.) • Zurich • 1998 • p. 137.
1999The Picasso Project (ed.)Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973 • Nazi Occupation 1940–1944 San Francisco • 1999 • no. 41-118 (ill.).
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 142 (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. 283 (ill.).
2021John RichardsonA Life of Picasso, The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943 New York • 2021 • Color insert.