Pablo Picasso
Gustave Coquiot
1901
Oil on cardboard
46 x 37 cm
Signed lower left: Picasso
Zervos, I-85; Daix VI-16
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
1Pierre Loeb Paris Zervos no. I.85.
2Alphonse Bellier Paris Archives for American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, Box 261, Folder 1, «Picassos for sale in exhibition», dated 27 October 1936, regarding a Picasso exhibition prepared by Gemain Seligman and listing no. 5, Gustave Coquiot, with a price of $ 3.800, Alphonse Bellier being identified as the painting's owner in an undated list in the same exhibition file; Picasso, «Blue» and «Rose» Periods 1901–1906, (exh. cat.) Jacques Seligmann Galleries, New York 1936, no. 5. The painting then remained in New York for a while, Jacques Seligmann & Co. records as above, Box 281, Folder 13, Stock Book 1936/37, no. 6257.
3Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich AStEGB, Entry Book II, 21 September 1953.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 23 September 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Entry Book as above, n. (3), with reference to the date of purchase.
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 79.
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
1936Picasso, «Blue» and «Rose» Periods 1901–1906 Jacques Seligmann Galleries • New York • 1936 no. 5.
1950French Masters of the XIXth and XXth Century Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1950 no. 32.
1951Œuvres choisies du XXe siècle Galerie Max Kaganovitch • Paris • 1951 no. 35.
1952Cent portraits d'hommes du XIVe siècle à nos jours Galerie Charpentier • Paris • 1952 no. 72b.
1955Europäische Meister 1790–1910 Kunstmuseum Winterthur • 1955 no. 152.
1955Picasso 1900–1955 Haus der Kunst, Munich • Rheinisches Museum, Cologne • Kunsthalle Hamburg • 1955–56 no. 5.
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. 303.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen • Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 73.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 118.
1984Der junge Picasso, Frühwerk und Blaue Periode Kunstmuseum Bern • 1984 no. 138.
2005Die Kunst des Handelns, Meisterwerke des 14. bis 18. Jahrhunderts bei Fritz und Peter Nathan Kunsthalle Tübingen • 2005–06 no. 162.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 79.
2011El Modernismo, De Sorolla à Picasso, 1880–1918 Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2011 no. 30.
2013Becoming Picasso Paris 1901 Courtauld Gallery • London • 2013 no. 8.
2017Picasso/Lautrec Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza • Madrid • 2017–2018 no. 13.
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. 50.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 31.
References
1932Christian Zervos Pablo Picasso vol. 1 Œuvres de 1895 à 1906 Paris • 1932 • no. 85, fig. 42 (left).
1942Joan Merli Picasso Buenos Aires • 1942 • fig. 44 (21948).
1946Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer Picasso antes Picasso Barcelona • 1946 (French edition: Picasso avant Picasso, Geneva 1950, fig. 82).
1948Denys Sutton Picasso, Peintures, Époques bleue et rose Paris • 1948 • no. 3 (21955).
1950Florent Fels L'art vivant de 1900 à nos jours Geneva • 1950 • p. 65 (ill.).
1955Wilhelm Boeck • Jaime Sabartés Picasso Paris • 1955 • p. 1158, no. 15 (ill.; German edition: Stuttgart 1955; 21961; English edition: London 1961).
1959Raymond Cogniat Picasso, Figures Lausanne • 1959 • p. 11 (ill.).
1966Pierre Daix • Georges Boudailles Picasso 1900–1906, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint Neuchâtel • 1966 • pp. 11 (ill.), 192, no. VI.16 (ill.).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 136 (ill.; 21986).
1981Josep Palau i Fabre Picasso Vivent, Infantesa i primera joventut d'un demiürg 1881–1907 Barcelona • 1981 • no. 571 (ill. [as Ambroise Vollard]; English edition: Picasso, The Early Years, New York & Oxford 1981; 21996 • French edition: Picasso vivant, Enfance et première jeunesse d'un démiurge 1881–1907, Paris 1981;2Cologne 1998; German edition: Picasso, Kindheit und Jugend eines Genies 1881–1907, Munich 1981;2Cologne 1998 • Spanish edition: Picasso Vivo 1881–1907, Barcelona 1981).
1991John Richardson A Life of Picasso vol. 1 • New York • 1991 • pp. 199 (ill. [as Ambroise Vollard])–200 (German edition: Picasso, Leben und Werk, vol. 1, 1881–1906, Munich 1991, pp. 211 [ill. bottom]–212 • French edition: Vie de Picasso, vol. 1, 1881–1906, Paris 1992).
1993Carsten-Peter Warncke Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 Cologne • 1993 • vol. 1, Werke 1890–1936, p. 67 (ill. top).
1994Picasso photographe, 1901–1916 (exh. cat.) • Musée Picasso • Paris • 1994 • p. 43, fig. 17 (the painting in a studio photograph taken by Picasso in 1901).
1995Pierre Daix Dictionnaire Picasso Paris • 1995 • p. 750 ([as Ambroise Vollard]; 2Le nouveau Dictionnaire Picasso, Paris 2012, pp. 755–756).
1996Michael FitzGerald Making Modernism, Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art Berkeley etc. • 1996 • p. 29, fig. 6 [as Ambroise Vollard].
2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 139 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2006Laurence Madeline Van Gogh, Picasso Paris • 2006 • p. 124, fig. 69.
2010Elizabeth Cowling • Richard Kendall Picasso looks at Degas (exh. cat.) • Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute • Williamstown (Massachusetts) etc. • 2010 • fig. 81 [as Ambroise Vollard?].
2010The Picasso Project (ed.)Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, Turn of the Century 1900–1901 Barcelona, Madrid and Paris • San Francisco • 2010 • no. 1901-196 (ill.).
2018Marilyn McCully «L'exposition Vollard» in Picasso, Bleu et rose(exh. cat.) • Musée d'Orsay • Musée national Picasso • Paris • 2018 • pp. 81, n. 4, 392, no. 25 (?).
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. 309 (ill.).