Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Messaline
1900/01
Messaline
Öl auf Leinwand
92 x 68 cm
Atelier-Stempel unten rechts
Dortu P. 703
Madeleine Grillaert Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, Catalogue des peintures, aquarelles, monotypes…, 4 vol., New York, 1971.
Provenienz
1Galerie Bernheim-Jeune Paris Dortu no. P.703.
2Lévêque Paris Dortu no. P.703.
3Dr. Georges Viau Paris Dortu no. P.703.
4Daniel-Henry (?) Kahnweiler Bern • by 1924 Paul Cassirer/Walter Feilchenfeldt-Archiv, Zurich, Stock Card Paul Cassirer Berlin, no. 4977, with a date of entry on 15 October 1924. The consignor is mentioned only with his second name and the location Bern, and since Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler had returned to Paris in 1920, the name might also refer to his brother Gustav who was active as an art dealer as well.
5Paul Cassirer Berlin • 1924–1925 Stock Card as above, n. (4)
6Ludwig Katzenellenbogen Berlin • 1925–1930 Stock Card as above, with a date of sale on 10 (?) January 1925.
6Estella Katzenellenbogen Berlin & Santa Monica (California) • 1930 until 1948/51 Wife of the above, from whom divorced in 1930; references to N.V. Amsterdamsche Kunsthandel Paul Cassirer & Co., Amsterdam, when the painting was exhibited in 1932 and in 1937 (French Art 1200–1900, [exh. cat.] Royal Academy of Arts, London 1932, no. 547; Chefs-d'Œuvre de l'Art français, [exh. cat.] Palais des Musées d'Art Moderne [Palais de Tokyo], Paris 1937, no. 426.) are based upon the fact that most of Estella Katzenellenbogen's collecton was then stored with the gallery, owned by Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt. In 1940, Estella Katzenellenbogen emigrated to California, taking along pictures from her collection (Anja Walter-Ris, Die Geschichte der Galerie Nierendorf, Kunstleidenschaft im Dienst der Moderne, Berlin/New York 1920–1995, Zurich 2003, pp. 255, 276, n. 210), including Messaline (French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, Loans from French and American Museums and Collections, [exh. cat.] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1941, no. 117); documents in the archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, show that the painting was sent by, and returned to the Katzenellenbogen family in Santa Monica in 1940/41.
7Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt Zurich Acquired from the above between 1948 and 1951, Information given by Mr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, son of Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, on 22 April 2008.
8Emil Bührle Zurich • 14 November 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, together with Manet, Un Coin du jardin de Bellevue (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 58) for a total of $ 100.000, AStEGB, Receipt with attached files, documenting provenance, exhibition and publication histories from Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, made out to Emil Bührle, 14 November 1951.
9Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 103.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Madeleine Grillaert Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, Catalogue des peintures, aquarelles, monotypes…, 4 vol., New York, 1971.
Ausstellungen
1914Exposition rétrospective de l'œuvre de H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) Galerie Manzi-Joyant • Paris • 1914 no. 35 (?).
1925Impressionisten, Herbstausstellung Galerie Paul Cassirer • Berlin • 1925 no. 59.
1932French Art 1200–1900 Royal Academy of Arts • London • 1932 no. 547.
1933Französische Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts Kunsthaus Zurich • 1933 no. 98.
1933Schilderijen van Delacroix tot Cézanne en Vincent van Gogh Museum Boymans • Rotterdam • 1933–34 no. 80.
1937Chefs-d'Œuvre de l'Art français Palais des Musées d'Art Moderne (Palais de Tokyo) • Paris • 1937 no. 426.
1941French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, Loans from French and American Museums and Collections Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York • 1941 no. 117.
1946A Loan Exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec Wildenstein Galleries • New York • 1946 no. 34.
1954Paris 1900 Musée Jenisch • Vevey • 1954 no. 110.
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. 209.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 59.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 163.
1959De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d'œuvre français des collections suisses Petit Palais • Paris • 1959 no. 132.
1986Toulouse-Lautrec, Gemälde und Bildstudien Kunsthalle Tübingen • 1986–87 no. 126.
1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 68.
2001Toulouse-Lautrec, Woman as Myth Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation (Museum of Contemporary Art) • Andros (Greece) • 2001 no. 11.
2008Toulouse-Lautrec Nationalmuseum • Stockholm • 2008 no. 3.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 103.
2015Toulouse-Lautrec und die Photographie Kunstmuseum Bern • 2015 p. 153 (ill.).
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 38.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 30.
Literatur
1926Maurice Joyant Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864–1901 vol. 1 Peintre Paris • 1926 • p. 299 (2New York 1968).
1927Paul de Lapparent Toulouse-Lautrec Paris • 1927 • p. 56.
1938Gerstle Mack Toulouse-Lautrec New York • 1938 • pp. 214, 356.
1939Ulrich Christoffel Meisterwerke der französischen Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zum XX. Jahrhundert Leipzig • 1939 • fig. 136.
1952Marcel G. Dortu Toulouse-Lautrec Paris • 1952 • fig. 67.
1959Edouard Julien Lautrec Paris • 1959 • p. 80 (ill.).
1974Werner Hofmann Das Irdische Paradies, Kunst im neunzehnten Jahrhundert Munich • 1960 • fig. 195 (2Das Irdische Paradies, Motive und Ideen des 19. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1974, fig. 315).
1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) • New York • 1963 • p. 221.
1968Kindlers Malerei-Lexikon vol. 5 • Zurich • 1968 • p. 547.
1968Horst Keller Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Cologne • 1968 • p. 73, fig. 12 (French edition: Paris 1970).
1969Giorgio Caproni • Gabriele Mandel Sugana L'opera completa di Toulouse-Lautrec Milan • 1969 • fig. 63, no. 518B (ill.; 21977; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk von Toulouse-Lautrec, Lucerne etc. 1969 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Toulouse-Lautrec, Barcelona 1970; 21988 • English edition: Gabriele Mandel Sugana, Denys Sutton, The Complete Paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, London 1973 • French edition: Bruno Foucart, Gabriele Mandel Sugana, Tout l'œuvre peint de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris 1986, no. 661B [ill.]).
1969André Fermigier Toulouse-Lautrec Paris • 1969 • fig. 200.
1971Marcel G. Dortu Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, Catalogue des peintures, aquarelles, monotypes, reliure, vitrail, céramique, dessins New York • 1971 • vol. 3 • no. P.703 (ill.; German edition: Marcel G. Dortu, J. A. Méric, Toulouse-Lautrec, Das Gesamtwerk, Frankfurt/M. etc. 1980).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 98 (ill.; 21986).
1991Edouard Julien Toulouse-Lautrec Paris • 1991 • p. 77 (ill.).
1991Toulouse-Lautrec (exh. cat.) • Hayward Gallery • London • 1991–92 • entry for no. 168, fig. 612; French edition: [exh. cat.] Grand Palais, Paris 1992).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 14–15 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1996El Greco bis Mondrian, Bilder einer Schweizer Privatsammlung (exh. cat.) • Aargauer Kunsthaus • Aarau etc. • 1996 • p. 74 (ill. left; French edition: Du Greco à Mondrian, Une collection privée suisse, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 1997).
2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 156 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2011Toulouse-Lautrec e la Parigi della Belle Epoque (exh. cat.) • Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma) • 2011 • pp. 96–97 (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. 212 (ill.).