Provenance
1Private Collection Paris Dauberville, no. 379.
2Eduard Troester Geneva • by 1949 (?) According to a correspondence between the director of the Kunsthaus Zurich and Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva, acting on behalf of Eduard Troester, Geneva, a picture Femme à sa toilette was lent by Troester to the Bonnard exhibition 1949 in the Kunsthaus Zurich, and exhibited there most probably as no. 61 (if not no. 99, in which case the Troester painting would have to be identified with Dauberville no. 1218), Archive Kunsthaus Zurich, Ausstellungen, Correspondence between Dr. Wilhelm Wartmann [Director of the Kunsthaus Zurich], Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva, and Eduard Troester, Geneva, 21 May 1949–August 1949.
3Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich AStEGB, Inventory Card Bonnard, Femme à sa toilette; a reference to an "Akt im Zimmer" by Bonnard, with Nathan as consignor, but without the usual date of acquisition, most probably refers to this picture, AStEGB, Entry Book II, 24 June 1955.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Inventory Card as above, n. (3).
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 1.
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
1949Pierre Bonnard Kunsthaus Zurich • 1949 no. 61 (?).
2004Pierre Bonnard, Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Der Maler und seine Modelle Villa Flora • Winterthur • 2004–05 no. 151.
2006Matisse e Bonnard, Viva la pittura! Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2006–07 no. 38.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 1.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 44.
2018Japonismes, ImpressionnismesMusée des impressionnismes • Giverny • 2018 no. 24.
2018Im Japanfieber, Von Monet bis Manga Arp Museum • Bahnhof Rolandseck • 2018-19 no. 24.
References
1965Jean Dauberville • Henry Dauberville Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint vol. 1 1888–1905 Paris • 1965 • no. 379 (ill.; 21992).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 102 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil 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. 104 (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. 460 (ill.).