Provenance
1Durand-Ruel • Bernheim-Jeune Paris • 1920 Acquired from the artist, Wildenstein no. 1420.
2Durand-Ruel Paris • 1922 Wildenstein no. 1420.
3Dr. Julius Elias Berlin • by 1924 Wildenstein no. 1420.
4Dr. Franz Ullstein Berlin • by 1936 Deutsches Kunstarchiv im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Galerie Heinemann Online, Dokument-ID 25271, Galerie Heinemann, Munich, Index Paintings Offered («Kartei angebotene Bilder»), Card KA-M-341, relating to «Monet, Cl. / Frau im Garten 95 / 100 x 90 cm / gesehen von Frau H. / Angebot von Franz Ullstein, Berlin d. Frau Caspari / Juni 1936», refers to the only work by Claude Monet, painted in 1895, which matches the description. The entry in the Heinemann index is corroborated by striking parallels in the provenances of the Sculptor Louis-Joseph Lebœuf by Gustave Courbet from the Ullstein Collection (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 25) and Monet's Garden in Giverny, both having been in the Julius Elias Collection in Berlin, before Franz Ullstein, and later with W. S. Kundig in Geneva, after the paintings had been transferred to Switzerland.
5W. S. Kundig, Geneva Switzerland • by 1941 Archive Oskar Reinhart Collection «Am Römerholz», Winterthur, Letter from W. S. Kundig, Geneva, to Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, 7 February 1941, accompanying photographs (later returned) of two paintings which he has to offer, among which a Monet, the size of which is annotated by Reinhart's secretary: «80 x 91». On 14 November 1941, Reinhart visits Emil Bührle in Zurich, and comments in his diary the pictures he has seen in Bührle's house; he lists a «Monet, Frau in Garten» and identifies it with «Kundig, Genf», Archive as above, Notizbuch 51/I, p. 170.
6Galerie Aktuaryus Zurich • by 1941 AStEGB, Receipted invoice from Galerie Aktuaryus made out to Emil Bührle, 5 March 1941.
7Emil Bührle Zurich • 7 March 1941 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 16.800, Receipted invoice as above, n. (5), receipt dated 7 March 1941.
8Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 72.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné / Werkverzeichnis, 4 vol., Cologne, 1996.
Exhibitions
1921Paintings by Modern French Masters Durand-Ruel Galleries • New York • 1921 no. 19.
1923Výstava francouszského umĕní XIX. a XX. stoleti Spolku Výtvarných Umĕlců Mánes (Art français des XIX et XX siècles, Hôtel de Ville) • Prague • 1923 no 91.
1941Peinture française Galerie Aktuaryus • Zurich • 1941 no. 14.
1943Ausländische Kunst in Zürich Kunsthaus Zürich • 1943 no. 614.
1952Claude Monet 1840–1926 Kunsthaus Zurich • 1952 no. 89.
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. 185.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 44.
2001Monet, I luoghi della pittura Casa dei Carraresi • Treviso • 2001–02 no. 66.
2004Monet's Garden (Monets Garten) Kunsthaus Zurich • 2004–05 no. 33.
2006Gärten, Ordnung, Inspiration, Glück Städel Museum • Frankfurt/Main • 2006–07 no. 79.
2007L'art de Monet et sa postérité National Art Center • Tokyo • 2007 no. 27.
2009Monet's Garden in Giverny, Inventing the Landscape Musée des Impressionnismes • Giverny • 2009 no. 10.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 72.
2015Painting the Modern Garden, Monet to Matisse Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (Ohio) • Royal Academy of Art, London • 2015–16 no. 98 (exhibited in London only).
2016Gärten der Welt, Orte der Sehnsucht und Inspiration Museum Rietberg • Zurich • 2016 no. 108.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 26.
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. 29.
References
1939Lionello Venturi Les archives de l'impressionnisme Paris & New York • 1939 • vol. 1, p. 455.
1941Galerie und Sammler (9) • 1941 • p. 79 (ill.).
1975Claire Joyes Monet at Giverny London & New York • 1975 • p. 66 (ill.).
1972Luigina Rossi Bortolatto L'Opera completa di Claude Monet 1870–1889 Milan • 1972 • no. 122 (ill.; 21978; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk von Monet 1870–1889, Lucerne etc. 1972).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 71 (ill.; 21986).
1979Daniel Wildenstein Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné vol. 3, Peintures 1887–1898 • Lausanne • Paris • 1979 • no. 1420 (ill.), pp. 287–288 (letters nos. 1304, 1306, 1307, 1314), 302 (P.J. nos. 145, 146); vol. 4, Peintures 1899–1926, Lausanne & Paris 1985, p. 404 (letters nos. 2331, 2337; 2Monet, Catalogue raisonné; Werkverzeichnis, vol. 3, Nos. 969–1595), Cologne 1996).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 39 (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. 80 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog; Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2012Lisa Melandri «Points of Origin, Interview with Mickalene Thomas» in Mickalene Thomas, Origin of the Universe (exh. cat.) • Santa Monica Museum of Art • Santa Monica (California) etc. • 2012–13 • p. 34, fig. 9.
2014Mette Bøgh Jensen «The grammar of colour, The Skagen painter Laurits Tuxen and the 19th century theory of colour» in Tuxen, Colour, Countryside and Crown (exh. cat.) • Skagens Museum (etc.) • 2014 • pp. 114–115, fig. 8.
2016Sylvie Patin Le Musée intime de Monet à Giverny, Ses toiles et les œuvres de ses amis Montreuil & Giverny • 2016 • pp. 18–19, fig. & no. 34, 32 (ill. bottom), 147.
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. 54 (ill.).