Provenienz
1Private Collection Ravensburg AStEGB, Inventory Card The Virgin of Mercy.
2Dr. Benno Griebert Meersburg • by 1953 until 1954 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 23 May 1953.
3Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 July 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for ca. CHF 40.000, AStEGB, Handwritten note from Emil Bührle, attached to 2 receipts signed by Dr. Benno Griebert regarding purchase of a painting, dated 14 January 1954 and 24 June 1954. On this note Emil Bührle records that the present sculpture enters his possession against a credit he has given Griebert, plus interests; AStEGB, Loan Contract between Emil Bührle, Zurich, and Dr. B. Griebert, Meersburg, confirming loan of CHF 39.500 from the former to the latter; Internal Note of 5 July 1954, Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon Bührle & Co., signed by Bührle, confirming that the above loan had been settled by acquisition. The exact date of the transaction in Entry Book as above, n. (2), and Entry Book II, 1 July 1953, and Inventory Card as above, n. (1), with the final date of the purchase.
4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. P14
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich