Pablo Picasso
The Spanish Church
1901/02
Devant l'église
Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm
Singed lower right: R. Picasso
Zervos XXI-308; Daix V-49
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et dessins, 33 vol., Paris, 1932-1978.
Pierre Daix, Georges Boudaille, Picasso, Période bleue et rose, Neuchâtel, 1966.
Provenance
1Private collection Paris Daix no. V.49.
2Private collection New York Daix no. V.49.
3Carstairs Gallery New York • by 1951 until 1953 Archive Kunstmuseum Bern, Inventory Book Loans (B-001-005), Record of a deposit by Max Kaganovitch of Picasso's Devant l'église at the Kunstmuseum Bern on 21st July 1951, the paintig being registered twice as no. 1327 and no. 1388. Identified as the (co-)owner is Carstairs Gallery, New York, then managed by Georges Keller who had close ties to the Kunstmuseum Bern. The date of the painting's removal is indicated as 25 November 1953, an additional note states that it was custom cleared for Mr. Bührle, and the price is given as CHF 10.000.
4Max Kaganovitch Paris • by 1951 until 1953 Inventory Book as above, n. (3); Œuvres choisies du XXe siècle, (exh. cat.) Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris 1951, no. 34; AStEGB, Entry Book II, 15 November 1953.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 November 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Inventory Book as above, n. (3) and Entry Book as above, n. (4); Letter from Prof. Max Huggler [Director of the Kunstmuseum], Bern, to Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.], Zurich, 27 November 1953, confirming import of four paintings, including Picasso, Devant l'église, and billing import and custom duties, with handwritten note by Emil Bührle: to be paid by or to be settled with Kaganovitch.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 80 .
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et dessins, 33 vol., Paris, 1932-1978.
Pierre Daix, Georges Boudaille, Picasso, Période bleue et rose, Neuchâtel, 1966.
Exhibitions
1951Œuvres choisies du XXe siècle Galerie Max Kaganovitch • Paris • 1951 no. 34.
1955Picasso 1900–1955 Haus der Kunst, Munich • Rheinisches Museum, Cologne • Kunsthalle Hamburg • 1955–56 no. 3.
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. 302.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen • Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 72.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 117.
1963Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Französische Meister von Delacroix bis Matisse Kunstmuseum Lucerne • 1963 no. 69.
2001Picasso und die Schweiz Kunstmuseum Bern • 2001 no. 13.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 80.
2011El Modernismo, De Sorolla à Picasso, 1880–1918 Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2011 no. 31.
2016The Secret of Picasso's Genius Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya • Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka • 2016 no. 26.
References
1966Pierre Daix • Georges Boudailles Picasso 1900–1906, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint Neuchâtel • 1966 • p. 19 (ill.), no. V.49 (ill.).
1969Christian Zervos Pablo Picasso vol. 21 Supplément aux années 1892–1902 Paris • 1969 • no. XXI.308 (ill.).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 137 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 51 (ill.; 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. 140 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog; Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2006Laurence Madeline Van Gogh, Picasso Paris • 2006 • p. 33, fig. 11.
2010The Picasso Project (ed.)Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, Turn of the Century 1900–1901 Barcelona, Madrid and Paris • San Francisco • 2010 • no. 1901-095 (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. 331 (ill.).