Edouard Vuillard
Self-Portrait
ca. 1906
Autoportrait
Oil on cardboard on canvas
48.5 x 48.5 cm
Studio stamp lower right
Salomon/Cogeval VII-405
Antoine Salomon, Guy Cogeval, Mathias Chivot, Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, 3 vol., Paris & Milan, 2003.
Provenance
1The estate of the artist Paris • 1940–1950 Salomon/Cogeval, no. VII-405.
2Renou & Colle Paris • 1950 Salomon/Cogeval, no. VII-405.
3Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt Zurich • until [d.] 1953 Salomon/Cogeval, no. VII-405.
4Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt Erben Zurich • 1953–1954 AStEGB, Voucher from Schweizerische Kreditanstalt/Crédit Suisse, Zurich, made out to Emil Bührle, 3 February 1954, confirming payment to the account of the heirs of Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 February 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 28.000, Voucher as above, n. (4); according to a sheet in the picture's file, and AStEGB, Entry Book II, a red chalk drawing by Renoir, Bathers, went with the acquisition.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 116.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Antoine Salomon, Guy Cogeval, Mathias Chivot, Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, 3 vol., Paris & Milan, 2003.
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. 270.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 176.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 116.
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. 52.
References
1955Curt Schweicher Vuillard Bern • 1955 • fig. 35.
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 107 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 51 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2003Antoine Salomon • Guy Cogeval Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels Paris & Milan • 2003 • vol. 2 • no. VII-405 (ill.).
2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 166 (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. 350 (ill.).