Provenance
1Kunstzaal Oldenzeel Rotterdam Paul Cassirer/Walter Feilchenfeldt-Archiv, Zurich, File regarding Van Gogh, The Old Tower.
2J. A. Maas Geesteranus Utrecht • 1937 File as above, n. (1).
3Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt for N. V. Amsterdamsche Kunsthandel Paul Cassirer & Co. Amsterdam & St. Gall • 1937–1942 File as above, n. (1). Dr. Feilchenfeldt kept operating the Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, through its Amsterdam branch from November 1933, when he emigrated from Germany. Various artworks in his possession, including Van Gogh's Old Tower, were transferred to Switzerland before the war. At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Dr. Feilchenfeldt was in Switzerland where he settled with his family.
4Dr. Fritz Nathan St. Gall 1942–1945 Acquired from the above in April 1942 for CHF 12.000, Paul Cassirer/Walter Feilchenfeldt-Archiv, Zurich, Notebook of Dr. Feilchenfeldt 1940–1942, with an entry referring to the sale of Van Gogh's Old Tower and the amount received.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 November 1945 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 20.000, AStEGB, Memorandum made at Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon Bührle & Co., 27 November 1945,summarizing details of the purchase of Van Gogh's Old Tower from Dr. Fritz Nathan.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 51.
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
1940Exposition d'Art FrançaisGalerie Aktuaryus • Zürich • 1940 no. 29.
1947Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 Kunsthalle Basel • 1947 no. 6.
1950Europäische Kunst 13.–20. Jahrhundert aus Zürcher Sammlungen Kunsthaus Zurich • 1950 p. 28.
1957Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Leben und Schaffen Museum Folkwang (Villa Hügel) • Essen • 1957 no. 163.
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. 233.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 43.
1998Millet, Van Gogh Musée d'Orsay • Paris • 1998–99 no. 37.
2006Van Gogh Budapesten (Van Gogh in Budapest) Szépművészeti Múzeum • Budapest • 2006–07 no. 25.
2009Vincent van Gogh, Zwischen Himmel und Erde Kunstmuseum Basel • 2009 no. 4.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 51.
2010Vincent van Gogh, Timeless Country, Modern City (Campagna senza tempo, città moderna) Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2010–11 no. 39.
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. 3.
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. 43.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 41.
References
1928Jacob-Baart de la Faille L'œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonné Paris & Brussels • 1928 • vol. 1 Tableaux, texte • no. 88 • vol. 2, Tableaux, planches • fig. 24 (bottom left).
1937Walther Vanbeselaere De Hollandsche periode (1880–1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) Amsterdam & Antwerp • 1937 • pp. 282 (no. 88), 414.
1939Jacob-Baart de la Faille Vincent van Gogh Paris • 1939 • no. 97 (ill.).
1946Fritz Nathan Zehn Jahre Tätigkeit in St. Gallen 1936–1946 St. Gallen • 1946 • p. 45 (ill.).
1949Werner Weisbach Vincent van Gogh, Kunst und Schicksal vol. 1 Die Frühzeit Basel • 1949 • p. 194, fig. 44.
1952Marco Valsecchi Van Gogh Milan • 1952 • fig. 2.
1963Heinz R. Graetz The Symbolic Language of Vincent van Gogh New York etc. • 1963 • p. 270, fig. 107.
1970Jacob-Baart de la Faille The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings Amsterdam • 1970 • no. F 88 (ill.).
1971Paolo Lecaldano L'opera pittorica completa di van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici vol. 1 Da Etten a Parigi Milan • 1971 • no 44 (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).
1973Jan Hulsker Van Gogh door Van Gogh, De brieven als commentaar op zijn werk Amsterdam • 1973 • p. 368.
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 83 (ill.; 21986).
1977Jan Hulsker Van Gogh en zijn weg, Het complete werk Amsterdam • 1977 • no. 490 (ill.; 21979, 31985, 41985, 51986, 61989; English edition: The Complete van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Oxford & New York 1980).
1989Rainer Metzger • Ingo F. Walther Vincent van Gogh, Sämtliche Gemälde Cologne • 1989 • vol. 1 Etten, April 1881–Paris, Februar 1888 p. 41 (ill.; 21993; 32001).
1993Jan Hulsker Vincent van Gogh, A Guide to His Works and Letters Amsterdam • 1993 • letter no. 373.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 44 (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. 490 (ill.).
2000Ton de Brouwer De oude toren en Van Gogh en Nuenen Venlo • 2000 • no. 9, fig. 26.
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 126 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2007Guillermo Solana «Epílogo en Auvers» in Van Gogh, Los últimos paisajes (exh. cat.) • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza • Madrid • 2007 • pp. 41–42, fig. 22.
2009Tsukasa Kôdera The Life of Vincent van Gogh (in Japanese) • Tokyo • 2009 • p. 101 (ill.).
2009Leo Jansen etc. (eds.) Vincent van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition London & New York • vol. 3 Drenthe–Paris, 1883–1887 entry for no. 446, n. 3; entry for no. 452, fig. 6; entry for no. 519, fig. 1, n. 4; entry for no. 529, fig. 2, n. 8.
2017Carmen Fernández Jacob La patología ocular en la pintura a través de la historia clínica oftalmológica Sociedad Española de Oftalmología (ed.) • Madrid • 2017 • p. 164, fig. 27.
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. 135 (ill.).