Provenance
1Ambroise Vollard Paris Dauberville no. 55.
2Martin Fabiani Paris Dauberville no. 55.
3Mademoiselle de Quirico Paris AStEGB, Invoice (and Letter of consignation) from Mademoiselle de Quirico, 74 Boulevard Excelmans, Paris, made out to Kunsthaus Zurich, 5 June 1954, for Renoir, Nature morte, priced at FF 3.000.000.
4Max Kaganovitch Paris AStEGB, Entry Book II, 19 June 1954.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 22 June 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for FF 6.6 Mio, Entry Book as above, n. (4), with reference to the date of purchase; for the price AStEGB, File concerning the import of the painting via Kunsthaus Zurich through Arthur Lénars & Cie., Paris, June 1954; and various Payment Orders, made out by Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zürich, in May and June 1954, with a type-written annotation regarding the nature of the payment for this painting as well as for a painting by Rouault, imported from the USA, for which an amount of $ 5.000 had been transferred by the bank, but was reimbursed by M. Kaganovitch, signed by M. Kaganovitch.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 85.
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
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. 171.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen • Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 33.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 134.
1996Renoir Kunsthalle Tübingen • 1996 no. 61.
2002L'impressionismo e l'età di van Gogh Casa dei Carraresi • Treviso • 2002–03 no. 59.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 85.
2011In the Presence of Things, Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting, Part 2, 19th–20th Centuries (1840–1955) (A Perspectiva das Coisas, Natureza-morta na Europa, 2ta parte, Séculos XIX–XX [1840–1955]) Calouste Gulbenkian Museum • Lisbon • 2011–12 no. 87.
2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 24.
2022Renoir, Rococo RevivalStädel Museum • Frankfurt a.M. • 2022 no. 92.
References
•1918Ambroise Vollard Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir Paris • 1918 • vol. 2, fig. 65 (upper right; 2Pierre Auguste-Renoir, Paintings, Pastels and Drawings; Tableaux, pastels et dessins, San Francisco 1989, fig. 1033).
1972Elda Fezzi L'opera completa di Renoir nel periodo impressionista 1869–1883 Milan • 1972 • no. 479 (German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Renoir aus der impressionistischen Periode 1869–1883, Lucerne etc. 1972; French edition: Elda Fezzi, Jacqueline Henry, Tout l'œuvre peint de Renoir, Période impressionniste 1869–1883, Paris 1985).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 63 (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. 94 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2007Guy-Patrice Dauberville • Michel Dauberville Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles vol. 1 1858–1881 Paris • 2007 • no. 55 (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. 392 (ill.).