Provenance
1Thadée Natanson Paris Dauberville no. 636. According to the provenance given by Galerie Vallotton to Emil Bührle, the painting's first owner would have been Alexandre rather than Thadée Natanson, AStEGB, Invoice from Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, made out to Emil Bührle, 17 October 1951.
2Bernheim-Jeune Paris • 1914 Acquired from the above, Dauberville no. 636.
3Jules Strauss Paris • 1932 Catalogue des importants tableaux modernes, pastels, aquarelles, dessins par P. Bonnard […], Collection Jules Strauss, (sale cat.) Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (15 December 1932), no. 26. This provenance is given as the last before Galerie Vallotton in their invoice to Emil Bührle, as above, n. (1). A reference to «Collection 'L'Art Moderne', Lucerne» given in Dauberville, no. 636, as the owner previous to Strauss could not be verified, since the painting does not figure in the Catalogue des tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins […] provenant de la «Collection de L'Art Moderne», Lucerne (Suisse), (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (20 June 1935).
4Galerie Paul Vallotton Lausanne • by 1951 Invoice as above, n. (1), and AStEGB, Letter from Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, to Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection], 5 February 1952.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 22 October 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 25.000, Invoice as above, n. (1), and AStEGB, Letter from Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.] to Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, 22 October 1951, confirming transfer of the above amount within the next days. Regarding an intermediary role of Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, see AStEGB, Inventory Card Bonnard, Place de la Concorde, and Entry Book I, 15 October 1951.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 4.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Jean Dauberville, Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 4 vol., Paris, 1965-1974.
Exhibitions
1955Pierre Bonnard Kunsthalle Basel • 1955 no. 33.
1955Pierre Bonnard Palazzo della Permanente • Milan 1955 not in catalogue.
1956Pierre Bonnard 1867–1947 Haus Salve Hospes, Braunschweig • Kunsthalle Bremen • Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne • 1956–57 no. 13.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 4.
2010Pierre Bonnard, Magier der Farbe Von der Heydt-Museum • Wuppertal • 2010–11 p. 201 (top).
References
1920Léon Werth Bonnard Paris • 1920 • fig. 7.
1934George Besson Bonnard Paris • 1934 • fig. 7 (21939).
1944«Pierre Bonnard» in Formes et Couleurs (6/2) 1944 • p. 21 (ill.).
1947François-Joachim Beer Pierre Bonnard Marseille • 1947 • p. 107, fig. 87.
1951Thadée Natanson Tentatives, Le Bonnard que je propose, 1867–1947 Geneva • 1951 • p. 129.
1968Jean Dauberville • Henry Dauberville Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint vol. 2 1906–1919 Paris • 1968 • no. 636 (ill.).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 103 (ill.; 21986).
1995Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 49 (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. 105 (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. 208 (ill.).