Emil Bührle Collection

Saint Michael and the Dragon

Auvergne

mid-12th century

Wood

66.5 cm

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1B. Pardo Paris • by 1956 AStEGB, Letter from B. Pardo, Galerie Pardo, Paris, to Emil Bührle, 16 May 1956, offering the sculpture for 3 mio. FF, and expressing some concern about the French export licence.

2Emil Bührle Zurich • 19 June 1956 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, for FF 3.000.000, AStEGB, Entry Book II, 19 June 1956.

3Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. P5.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Exhibitions

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. P5.

References

1958Doris Wild «Zur Ausstellung der Sammlung Bührle» in Alte und neue Kunst (9, no. 1/2) • 1958 • p. 11, fig. 1.

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection  Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 171 (ill.;21986).

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue  vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. S1 (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. 627 (ill.).