Provenance
1Private collection Riehen • by 1942 AStEGB, Receipted invoice from Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich, made out to Emil Bührle 19 April 1943, identifying the Butte Pinson as no. 171 of an Utrillo exhibition in Basel 1942 (Maurice Utrillo, Kunsthalle Basel 1942), listed in the catalogue as Private Collection, Riehen. Contrary to two other paintings with the same title, listed in the exhibition catalogue (nos. 169 and 186), the surviving correspondence of the Kunsthalle Basel does not allow to identify the lender of no. 171 (State Archives Basel-Stadt, Archive of the Kunstverein Basel, PA 888a, N 6 [1] 368, File regarding Utrillo-Exhibition 1942).
2Galerie Aktuaryus Zurich • by 1943 AStEGB, Receipted invoice as above.
3Emil Bührle Zurich • 22 April 1943 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 11.000, Receipted invoice as above, n. (1), receipt dated 22 April 1943.
4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 109
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Exhibitions
1942Maurice Utrillo Kunsthalle • Basel • 1942 no. 171.
1943Ausländische Kunst in Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 1943 no. 699.
1949Maurice Utrillo, Werke aus schweizerischem Privatbesitz Kunsthalle Bern • 1949 no. 10.
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. 283.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London 1961 no. 77.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 109.
References
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 130 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 51 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 158 (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. 107 (ill.).