Paul Gauguin
Die Opfergabe
1902
L'Offrande
Öl auf Leinwand
68.5 x 78.5 cm
Signiert & datiert oben links: P. Gauguin 1902
Wildenstein 624 (PGJQ2R)
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris 1964. See also: Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1891–1903, Wildenstein Plattner Institute (ed.), https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/artworks/gauguin/introduction (Wildenstein Plattner)
Provenienz
1Ambroise Vollard Paris • 1903–1906 Acquired from the artist, Suzanne Diffre, Marie-Josèphe Lesieur, «Gauguin in the Vollard Archives», in Gauguin, Tahiti, The Studio of the South Sea, (exh. cat.) Grand Palais, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2003–04, p. 308.
2Alexandre Berthier, Prince de Wagram Paris • 1906 Acquired from the above on 25 June 1906 for FF 6.000, exh. cat. as above, n. (1). Berthier's failure to pay the paintings in full led to Vollard's retrieving them, or buying them back shortly thereafter, Cézanne to Picasso, Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, (exh. cat.) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York etc. 2006–07, p. 281.
3Ambroise Vollard Paris • by 1927 Zentralarchiv für deutsche und internationale Kunstmarktforschung ZADIK, Cologne, Thannhauser Archive, Lagerbuch II (A 077-XIX-002-0022), #1135.
4Galerie Thannhauser Berlin • 1927–1929 Acquired from the above on 11 February 1927, Lagerbuch II as above, n. (3); Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin,(exh. cat.) Galerie Thannhauser (Berliner Künstlerhaus), Berlin 1927, no. 101; Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin 1928, no. 77.
5Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. • Etienne Bignou London • 1929 Acquired from the above on 10 November 1929, Lagerbuch II as above, n. (3).
6Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.London • Knoedler & Co. New York • 1930 joint ownershipuntil 1936 Wildenstein Plattner no. PGJQ2R.
7Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. London • by 1936 Wildenstein Plattner no. PGJQ2R.
8Max Kaganovitch Paris • by 1938–1956 Œuvres choisies (des 19ème et 20ème siècles), (exh. cat.) Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris 1938, no. 21; Paul Gauguin (exh. cat.) Kunstmuseum Basel 1949–50, no. 64, the lender being Max Kaganovitch, Archive Kunstmuseum Basel, K 13,7.
9Emil Bührle Zurich • September 1956 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, AStEGB, Inventory Card Gauguin, L'Offrande; Archive of Kunstmuseum Bern, Inventory Book Loans (B-001-005), Records of a deposit by Max Kaganovitch of 29 artworks in his possession at the Kunstmuseum Bern on 25 November 1950, L'Offrande being no. 1266. Whilst no exact date is recorded for the painting's removal, the entry states that Kaganovitch personally brought the painting to Zurich, an additonal note states that the painting was sold to Mr. Bührle in September 1956, and the price is given as $ 80.000 (≈ CHF 344.000).
10Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 47.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris 1964. See also: Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1891–1903, Wildenstein Plattner Institute (ed.), https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/artworks/gauguin/introduction (Wildenstein Plattner)
Ausstellungen
1903Gauguin Galerie Ambroise Vollard • Paris • 1903 no. 2 (?).
1927Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin Galerie Thannhauser (Berliner Künstlerhaus) • Berlin • 1927 no. 101.
1928Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903 Galerie Thannhauser • Berlin • 1928 no. 77.
1928Paul Gauguin Kunsthalle Basel • 1928 no. 106.
1930Renoir and the Post-Impressionists Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. • London • 1930 no. 13.
1930Masterpieces by Nineteenth Century French Painters Knoedler Galleries • New York • 1930 no. 6.
1938Œuvres choisies (des 19ème et 20ème siècles) Galerie Max Kaganovitch • Paris • 1938 no. 21.
1949Paul Gauguin zum 100. Geburtstag Kunstmuseum Basel • 1949–50 no. 64.
1950Œuvres choisies du XIXe siècle Galerie Max Kaganovitch • Paris • 1950 no. 18.
1955Europäische Meister 1790–1910 Kunstmuseum Winterthur • 1955 no. 92.
1955Gauguin, An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • Tate Gallery, London • 1955 no. 64.
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. 253.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 44.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 63.
1959De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d'œuvre français des collections suisses Petit Palais • Paris • 1959 no. 59.
1960Paul Gauguin 1848–1903 Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere • Vienna • 1960 no. 47.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 53.
1964Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses Exposition nationale suisse (Palais de Beaulieu) • Lausanne • 1964 no. 111.
1969Il sacro e il profano nell'arte dei Simbolisti Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna • Turin • 1969 no. 103.
1988The Art of Paul Gauguin (Gauguin) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. • Art Institute, Chicago • Grand Palais, Paris • 1988–89 no. 267.
1998Paul Gauguin, Tahiti Staatsgalerie • Stuttgart • 1998 no. 54.
2005Gauguin, Van Gogh, L'avventura del colore nuovo Museo di Santa Giulia • Brescia • 2005–06 no. 148.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 47.
2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 16.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 36.
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. 54.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 38.
Literatur
1919Charles Morice Paul Gauguin Paris • 1919 • p. 16 (ill.).
1927Julius Meier-Graefe «Die Franzosen in Berlin» in Cicerone(19) • 1927 • p. 43 (ill.).
1929Wilhelm Barth Paul Gauguin Basel • 1929 • pp. 145–146, fig. 39.
1933Carl Albrecht Bernoulli Gauguin Der Menschenmacher, Fünf Akte Basel • 1933 • p. 78.
1946Hans Graber Paul Gauguin nach eigenen und fremden Zeugnissen Basel • 21946 • p. 460 (ill.).
1948Maurice Malingue Gauguin, Le peintre et son œuvre Paris & London • 1948 • fig. 232 (bottom).
1950Lee Van Dovski Gauguin Olten & Berne • 1950 • p. 345, no. 383.
1958Max Huggler «Die Sammlung Bührle im Zürcher Kunsthaus» in Werk (45) • 1958 • p. 371.
1960Robert Th. Stoll Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne Zurich • 1960 • p. 78, fig. 29.
1962Kuno Mittelstädt (ed.) Paul Gauguin, Briefe an Georges Daniel de Monfreid Berlin • 1962 • fig. 36.
1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) • New York 1963 • p. 221, fig. 226.
1964Georges Wildenstein Gauguin vol. 1 Catalogue • Paris 1964 • no. 624 (ill.).
1969Schätze aus Museen und Sammlungen in Zürich Zurich 1969 • pp. 306–307 (ill.).
1972Gabriele Mandel Sugana L'opera completa di Gauguin Milan • 1972 • fig. 62, no. 448 (ill.; 21981; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Gauguin, Lucerne etc. 1972 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica di Gauguin, Barcelona 1973 • French edition: Tout l'œuvre peint de Gauguin, Paris 1981).
1986Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 82 (ill.; 21986).
1987Helmut Schneider «Von der Fabrikation des Exotischen zur Erfindung des Primitiven» in Exotische Welten, Europäische Phantasien (exh. cat.) • Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Kunstgebäude am Schlossplatz) • Stuttgart • 1987 • p. 392, fig. 1.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 45 (ill.)–46 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2004Suzanne Diffre • Marie-Josèphe Lesieur «Gauguin in the Vollard Archives» in Gauguin, Tahiti, The Studio of the South Sea (exh. cat.) • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston • 2004 • p. 308 (French edition: «Gauguin dans les archives Vollard du musée d'Orsay», in Gauguin Tahiti, L'atelier des tropiques, Grand Palais, Paris, 2003–04, p. 355).
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 125 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2006Zadik (ed.) Thannhauser, Händler, Sammler, Stifter Nürnberg • 2006 • pp. 42 (ill. top)–43 (ill. bottom, the picture hanging in the 1927 exhibition).
2007Henrike Holsing «'… die grosse Wirkung nobler Einfachheit', Der Akt» in Paula Modersohn-Becker und die Kunst in Paris um 1900, Von Cézanne bis Picasso (exh. cat.) • Kunsthalle Bremen • 2007–08 • p. 151, fig. 12.
2015Lukas Gloor «The International Reception of Gauguin's Work. Seen through Two Past Exhibitions in Basel» in Paul Gauguin (exh. cat.) • Fondation Beyeler • Riehen/ Basel • 2015 • p. 196, fig. 12 (French edition: «La réception internationale de Gauguin au miroir de deux expositions bâloises» • German edition: «Aspekte der internationale Gauguin-Rezeption im Spiegel zweier Basler Ausstellungen»).
2021Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., (ed.)Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1891–1903 Texts by Richard R. Brettell and Elpida Vouitsis, Research by Françoise Marnoni, Evgenia Kuzmina, and Jennifer Gimblett, [URL] (accessed on 8 July 2021), no. PGJQ2R (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. 539 (ill.).