Provenance
1Emile Bernard (?) Received as a gift from the artist, Walter Feilchenfeldt, Vincent van Gogh, Die Gemälde 1886–1890, Händler, Sammler, Ausstellungen, Die frühen Provenienzen, Wädenswil 2009, p. 43.
2Louis Bernard Paris • by 1909/12 Cinquante tableaux de Vincent van Gogh, Galerie E. Druet, Paris 1909, no. 35; Exposition de portraits du XIXe siècle, 10e Salon d'Automne (Grand Palais), Paris 1912, no. 206 (as «Portrait de mon frère»).
3Galerie Henri Barbazanges ParisDr. Hermann Eissler Vienna Dr. Alfred Gold Berlin • by 1925 Exposition rétrospective d'œuvres de Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris 1925, no. 206; Die führenden Meister der französischen Kunst im 19. Jahrhundert, (exh. cat.) Secession, Vienna 1925, no. 93; Hermann Eissler and Alfred Gold acted often as agents for the Galerie Barbazanges.
4Alexander Lewin Guben & Monte Carlo • by 1930 until [d.] 1942 Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, (exh. cat.) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1930, no. 34. The painting entered the Amsterdamsche Kunsthandel Paul Cassirer & Co. N.V., Amsterdam, for deposit and was sent to the warehouse of Véron-Grauer, Geneva, on 18 March 1940, AStEGB, Letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 10 June 2008, quoting the inventory book of Amsterdamsche Kunsthandel Paul Cassirer & Co. N.V., Amsterdam, entry no. 67, referring to consignment A. Lewin.
5Gräfin Hedwig Bopp von Oberstadt, née Salomon1942–1945 Received from the above as a gift, as confirmed after Lewin's death by his daughter, Mrs. Alice J. Kurz, AStEGB, Letter as above, n. (4), accompanied by a copy of Letter from Mrs. Alice J. Kurz, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., to Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 19 January 1948, confirming that she agrees that the paintings should now belong to Countess Bopp; attached to the letter is the transcription of a list of Lewin's paintings that have come into her possession, compiled by Hedwig Bopp and including van Gogh's Self-Portrait.
6Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 August 1945 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 75.000, AStEGB, Inventory Card van Gogh, Self-Portrait, and File with references to provenance, publications, and custom stamps of 8 paintings, which Bührle all acquired from Gräfin Hedwig Bopp von Oberstadt in August 1945, except for van Gogh's Self-Portrait none of them today in the Emil Bührle Collection (for an identification of the lot see Lukas 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, nos. 126–133); all 8 paintings appear also in the above quoted list, n. (5); AStEGB, Letter of Maître Marc Bellay, Paris/Geneva, acting on behalf of Hedwig Bopp von Oberstadt, to Emil Bührle, 3 August 1945, declaring the transfer of ownership for all 8 paintings to Emil Bührle.
7Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 54.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam, 1970.
Exhibitions
1901Exposition d'Œuvres de Vincent van Gogh Galerie Bernheim-Jeune • Paris • 1901 no. 11 (as Theodor van Gogh).
1909Cinquante tableaux de Vincent van Gogh Galerie E. Druet • Paris • 1909 no. 35.
1912Exposition de portraits du XIXe siècle 10e Salon d'Automne (Grand Palais) • Paris • 1912 no. 206 (as «Portrait de mon frère»).
1925Exposition rétrospective d'œuvres de Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 Galerie Marcel Bernheim • Paris • 1925 no. 206.
1925Die führenden Meister der französischen Kunst im 19. Jahrhundert Secession • Vienna • 1925 no. 93.
1930Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam • 1930 no. 34.
1933Schilderijen van Delacroix tot Cézanne en Vincent van Gogh Museum Boymans • Rotterdam • 1933–34 no. 37.
1947Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 Kunsthalle Basel • 1947 no. 46.
1950Europäische Kunst 13.–20. Jahrhundert aus Zürcher Sammlungen Kunsthaus Zurich • 1950 p. 28.
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. 238.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 69.
1960Van Gogh, Self Portraits Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1960 no. 6.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 56.
2002L'impressionismo e l'età di van Gogh Casa dei Carraresi • Treviso • 2002–03 no. 149.
2005Van Gogh echt falsch, Zwei Selbstbildnisse der Sammlung Emil Bührle Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle • Zurich • 2005–06 no. 1.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 54.
2012Raffaello verso Picasso, Storie di sguardi, volti e figure Basilica Palladiana • Vicenza • 2012–13 no. 68.
2017Calme et Exaltation, Van Gogh dans la Collection Bührle • Calm and Exaltation, Van Gogh in the Bührle Collection Fondation Vincent van Gogh • Arles • 2017 no. 4.
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. 44.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 43.
2019Richard Gerstl, Inspiration, VermächtnisLeopold Museum, Wien • Kunsthus Zug • 2019–20 p. 137 (exhibited in Vienna only).
References
1911Ambroise Vollard (ed.)Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à Emile Bernard Paris • 1911 • fig. 97.
1927Paul Colin Van Gogh Paris • 1927 • fig. 40.
1928Jacob-Baart de la Faille L'œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonné Paris & Brussels • 1928 • vol. 1 Tableaux, texte no. 366 • vol. 2 Tableaux, planches fig. 99 (bottom right).
1939Jacob-Baart de la Faille Vincent van Gogh Paris • 1939 • no. 405 (ill.).
1952Marco Valsecchi Van Gogh Milan • 1952 • fig. 9.
1955Katharina Bromig-Kolleritz von Novisancz Die Selbstbildnisse Vincent van Goghs (Diss. phil.) • Munich • 1955 • pp. 103–104 (ill.).
1963Fritz Erpel Die Selbstbildnisse Vincent van Goghs Berlin • 1963 • p. 57, fig. 23.
1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) • New York • 1963 • p. 221.
1970Jacob-Baart de la Faille The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings Amsterdam • 1970 • no. F 366 (ill.).
1971Paolo Lecaldano L'opera pittorica completa di van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici vol. 1 Da Etten a Parigi Milan • 1971 • no 455 (ill.; 21977; French edition: Tout l'œuvre peint de Vincent van Gogh, vol. 1, Paris 1971 • German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk des Van Gogh, vol. 1, Von Etten bis Paris, Lucerne etc. 1971 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Van Gogh, vol. 1, Barcelona 1972).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 85 (ill.; 21986).
1977Jan Hulsker Van Gogh en zijn weg, Het complete werk Amsterdam • 1977 • no. 1345 (ill.; 21979, 31985, 41985, 51986, 61989; English edition: The Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Oxford & New York 1980).
1980Sophie Monneret L'Impressionnisme et son époque, Dictionnaire international illustré vol. 3 • Paris • 1980 • p. 140.
1989Pascal Bonafoux Van Gogh, Self Portraits, With Accompanying Letters from Vincent to His Brother Theo Secaucus (New Jersey) • 1989 • fig. 27.
1989Rainer Metzger • Ingo F. Walther Vincent van Gogh, Sämtliche Gemälde Cologne • 1989 • vol. 1 Etten, April 1881–Paris, Februar 1888 p. 297 (ill. right; 21993; 32001).
1990Stephan Koja • Erhard Stöber «Zu einem Selbstbildnis Vincent van Goghs, Eine Urheberschaft van Goghs ist kaum mehr zu halten» in Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Galerie (34/35) • 1990/91 • p. 116, fig. 77.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 33 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1996Jan Hulsker The New Complete Van Gogh, Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent van Gogh Amsterdam & Philadelphia • 1996 • no. 1345 (ill.).
2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 129 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2009Walter Feilchenfeldt Vincent van Gogh, Die Gemälde 1886–1890, Händler, Sammler, Ausstellungen, Die frühen Provenienzen Wädenswil • 2009 • pp. 43 (ill.), 276.
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. 127 (ill.).