Camille Pissarro
Das Gespräch, Louveciennes
1870
La Conversation, Louveciennes
Öl auf Leinwand
100 x 81 cm
Signiert & datiert unten links: C. Pissarro 1870
Pissarro/Durand-Ruel 163
Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings / Catalogue critique des peintures, 3 vol., Milan, Paris, 2005
Provenienz
1Julie Pissarro Paris • 1903 until [d.] 1926 Widow of the artist, Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 163.
2The estate of Julie Pissarro 1926–1928 Catalogue des œuvres importantes de Camille Pissarro […] composant la collection Camille Pissarro, (sale cat.) Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (3 December 1928), no. 24.
3Paul Rosenberg Paris & New York • 1928–1953 Acquired at the above sale for FF 147.000, Maurice Monda, «Revue des ventes de décembre, Lundi 3 décembre, Galerie Georges Petit, La Collection Camille Pissarro», in Figaro, Supplément artistique (10 January) 1929, p. 221; Archive Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, Inventory Notebook, September 1952, pp. 2–3, indicates as purchase price the sum of $ 7.600; AStEGB, Letter from Paul Rosenberg, New York, to Emil Bührle, 22 September 1952, accompanying individual invoices for 10 pictures which Bührle has acquired from him, including Pissarro, Route de Versailles.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 18 September 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for $ 24.000 minus a 10% discount ($ 2.400) = $ 21.600, AStEGB, Invoice from Paul Rosenberg, New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 22 September 1952; Letter from Emil Bührle to Paul Rosenberg, Zurich, 6 May 1953, accompanying a check in payment of 4 pictures and scheduling payments for 3 pictures still to be effected, including Pissarro, Route de Versailles; [2nd] Invoice from Paul Rosenberg, New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 14 September 1953, for 3 pictures valued at $ 138.600, including Pissarro, Route de Versailles, and deducting $ 19.220 for payment already effected; Payment order from Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 18 September 1953, ordering transfer of $ 119.380 to Paul Rosenberg; Correspondence regarding the import of the 10 pictures to Switzerland, 12 January 1956–22 June 1956, the Pissarro figuring in the papers as «Pissarro, Road to Versailles», with a declared value of $ 10.000.
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 121.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings / Catalogue critique des peintures, 3 vol., Milan, Paris, 2005
Ausstellungen
1914Exposition rétrospective d'œuvres de Camille Pissarro Galerie Manzi & Joyant • Paris • 1914 no. 7.
1921Exposition de la collection de Madame Veuve C. Pissarro Galerie Nunès & Fiquet • Paris • 1921 no. 32.
1932Exhibition of French Art 1200–1900 Royal Academy of Arts • London • 1932 no. 509.
1934Exhibition of Important Paintings by Great French Masters of the Nineteenth Century Paul Rosenberg & Durand-Ruel (Durand Ruel Galleries) • New York • 1934 no. 39.
1934Paintings by Sisley and Pissarro Knoedler Galleries • London • 1934 no. 13.
1935L'Impressionnisme Palais des Beaux-Arts • Brussels • 1935 no. 59.
1938Pictures by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley Rosenberg & Helft Gallery • London • 1938 no. 8.
1942Great French Masters of the Nineteenth Century, Corot to Van Gogh Paul Rosenberg & Co. • New York • 1942 no. 6.
1943French Art of the Nineties Institute of Modern Art • Boston • 1943.
1944Paintings of the French Countryside Toledo Museum of Art • Toledo (Ohio) • 1944 no. 21.
1945Art of the United Nations M. H. de Young Memorial Museum • San Francisco • 1945.
1949Paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Sisley Paul Rosenberg & Co. • New York • 1949 no. 6.
1949Pissarro Toledo Museum of Art • Toledo (Ohio) • 1949 cat. without nos.
1949Monet and the Beginning of Impressionism Currier Art Gallery • Manchester (New Hampshire) • 1949 no. 14.
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. 190.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 3.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 120.
1959De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d'œuvre français des collections suisses Petit Palais • Paris • 1959 no. 106.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 10.
1963Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Französische Meister von Delacroix bis Matisse Kunstmuseum Lucerne • 1963 no. 19.
1963Die Ile de France und ihre Maler Nationalgalerie (Orangerie Schloss Charlottenburg) • Berlin • 1963 no. 11.
1964Chefs-d’œuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso Exposition Nationale Suisse (Palais de Beaulieu) • Lausanne • 1964 no. 50.
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. 19.
2006Turner e gli impressionisti, La grande storia del paesaggio moderno in Europa Museo di Santa Giulia • Brescia • 2006–07 no. 134.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 121.
201621, rue La Boétie Musée La Boverie • Liège • 2016–17 no. 19.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 17.
2017Gefeiert & verspottet, Französische Malerei 1820–1880 Kunsthaus Zurich • 2017–18 no. 89.
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. 22.
Literatur
1989Janine Bailly-Herzberg (ed.) Correspondance de Camille Pissarro vol. 4 1895–1898 • Paris • 1989 • p. 293 (no. 1338; letter to Lucien Pissarro, 6 February 1896; 22003).
1914James Bolivar Manson «The Camille Pissarro Exhibition in Paris» in Outlook (7 February) • 1914 • p. 171.
1914Maurice Hamel «Camille Pissarro, Exposition rétrospective de ses œuvres» in Les Arts (March) • 1914 • p. 26.
1922Georges Lecomte Camille Pissarro Paris • 1922 • p. 48 (ill.).
1928Charles Kunstler «Pissarro, 1830–1903» in La Renaissance de l’Art français et des industries de luxe (11) • 1928 • p. 501 (ill.).
1929Maurice Monda «Revue des ventes de décembre, Lundi 3 décembre, Galerie Georges Petit, La Collection Camille Pissarro» in Figaro, Supplément artistique (10 January) • 1929 • p. 221–222 (ill.).
1929Charles Kunstler in A.B.C. Magazine artistique et littéraire (March) • 1929 • p. 80 (ill.).
1933Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art 1200–1900, London, January–March 1932 London • 1933 • no. 466, fig. 130 (top).
1939Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro • Lionello Venturi Camille Pissarro, Son art, son œuvre Paris • 1939 • vol. 1, Texte, no. 96, vol. 2, Planches, fig. 19 (21998 San Francisco).
1940Reginald Howard Wilenski Modern French Painters London • 1940 • pp. 5, 7, 9, fig. 8A (21944; 31945; 41947).
1946Hans Graber Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Nach eigenen und fremden Zeugnissen Basel • 1943 • p. 20 (ill.).
1946John Rewald The History of Impressionism New York • 1946 • p. 207 (ill., right; 21955; 31961; 41973: p. 251 [ill., left], & various translations and editions).
1954Herbert Günther Camille Pissarro, 1830–1903 Munich etc. • 1954 • fig. 10 and front cover ill. (detail).
1963John Rewald Camille Pissarro 1830–1903 Paris • 1954 • fig. 10 and front cover ill. (German edition: Cologne 1963, pp. 74–75 [ill.]; 21968).
1955Meïr Stein Camille Pissarro, 1830–1903 Copenhagen • 1955 • fig. 10 and front cover ill.
1957Arnold Kübler «Die Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle» in Du (17) • 1957 • p. 54 (ill.).
1959Denys Sutton «The Bührle Collection» in The Connoisseur (143) • 1959 • p. 145, fig. 8.
1962Jean Leymarie Französische Malerei, Das 19. Jahrhundert Geneva • 1962 • pp. 181 (ill.)–182.
1963Leopold Reidemeister Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France, Topographische Beiträge zur Geschichte der französischen Landschaftsmalerei von Corot bis zu den Fauves Berlin • 1963 • p. 43 (ill.).
1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) • New York • 1963 • pp. 220, 223 (ill.).
1967Charles Kunstler Pissarro, Villes et campagnes Lausanne • 1967 • fig. 3 and back cover (ill.).
1964Reginald Howard Wilenski Modern French Painters London • 1963 • (German edition: Moderne französische Maler, Vom Impressionismus bis zur Neuzeit, Berlin 1964, p. 56 [ill. top]).
1969Schätze aus Museen und Sammlungen in Zürich Zurich • 1969 • pp. 300–301 (ill.).
1970Maria Blunden etc. Impressionists and Impressonism Geneva & New York • 1970 • p. 86 (ill., 21980, 31987; French edition: Geneva 1979, 21987 • German edition: Geneva & Stuttgart 1979, 21987).
1970John Rewald Pissarro Paris • 1970 • pp. 74–75 (ill., no. 5; 21974: C. Pissarro; English edition: Paris & New York 1989: 21991: London, pp. 54–55 [ill.]).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 40 (ill.; 21986).
1978Yoshikazu Iwasaki Camille Pissarro Tokyo • 1978 • fig. 4.
1979Sophie Monneret L'Impressionnisme et son époque, Dictionnaire international illustré vol. 2 • Paris • 1979 • p. 121 (entry for Pissarro).
1979Christopher Llyod Pissarro Oxford • 1979 • ill. (21993).
1981Christopher Lloyd Camille Pissarro New York • 1981 • pp. 46–47 (ill.; French edition: Geneva 1981).
1990Richard Brettell Pissarro and Pontoise, The Painter in a Landscape New Haven (CT) & London • 1990 • p. 212 (n. 16).
1993Martin Reid Pissarro London • 1993 • pp. 58–59 (ill.), 143.
1993Joachim Pissarro Camille Pissarro New York & London • 1993 • pp. 61, 64, 69, 71–72, fig. 58.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 12–13 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1998Christian Bührle «Die Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle in Zürich» in Die Kunst zu sammeln, Schweizer Kunstsammlungen seit 1848 • L'art de collectionner, Collections d'art en Suisse depuis 1848 • L'arte di collezionare, Collezioni svizzere d'arte dal 1848 Swiss Institute for Art Research (ed.) • Zurich • 1998 • p. 136, fig. 7.
1999Faces of Impressionism, Portraits from American Collections (exh. cat.) • The Baltimore Museum of Art etc. • 1999–2000 • entry for cat. no. 50, p. 138, fig. 50a.
2000Marie-José Pellé «Vert Pissarro…», Impressions de Normandie et d'ailleurs Luneray • 2000 • p. 39.
2005Joachim Pissarro • Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Critical Catalogue of Paintings Milan & Paris • 2005 • vol. 2 • no. 163 (ill.).
2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 84 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2011Richard R. Brettell Pissarro's People (exh. cat.) • Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (Massachusetts) etc. • Munich etc. • 2011 • p. 22, fig. 7.
2016Lukas Gloor «Emil Bührle and Paul Rosenberg: A business relationship at the dawn of the post-war era» in 21, rue La Boétie, based on the book by Anne Sinclair (exh. cat.) • Musée La Boverie, Liège • 2016–17 • p. 137 (French edition: «Emil Bührle et Paul Rosenberg: Une relation d'affaires au lendemain de la guerre», in 21, rue La Boétie, D'après le livre d'Anne Sinclair; 2nd edition: [exh. cat.] Musée Maillol, Paris 2017, p. 139).
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. 256 (ill.).