Emil Bührle Collection

Maurice de Vlaminck

Oranges

1907/08

Oranges

Oil on canvas

44.5 x 54 cm

Signed lower left: Vlaminck

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Provenance

1Alfred Schwabacher New York AStEGB, Inventory Card Vlaminck, Nature morte.

2Dr. Peter Nathan New York Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • 1954 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 8 May 1954, identifying Dr. Peter Nathan as the consignor.

3Emil Bührle Zurich • 13 July 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from Dr. Fritz Nathan, father of Dr. Peter Nathan, for $ 8.000, AStEGB, Payment order made by Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 9 July 1954 for the sum of $ 40.000 to be transferred to Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich. Attached to this payment order is a handwritten note by Emil Bührle, dated 9 July 1954 and listing 3 paintings with their resepective prices: «Renoir, Blumen, 24 / Pissarro, Strickerin, 13 / Vlaminck, Stillleben, 8» (Emil Bührle Collection Inv. 88, 119, 111) for a total sum of $ 45.000, from which $ 5.000 are to be subtracted against the return of a «Vlaminck, Intérieur»; Letter from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 13 July 1954, confirming payment of $ 40.000 to Dr. Fritz Nathan.

4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 111.

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

Exhibitions

1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 70.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 169.

1959Triumph der Farbe, Die europäischen Fauves Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen • Nationalgalerie (Orangerie Schloss Charlottenburg), Berlin• 1959 no. 24.

1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 73.

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. 78.

2008Vlaminck, Un instinct fauve Musée du Luxembourg • Paris• 2008 no. 38.

2009Fauves hongrois 1904–1914, La leçon de Matisse Musée des Beaux-Arts • Dijon • 2009 no. 167.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 111.

2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 54.

References

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 118 (ill.; 21986).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 35 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 162 (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. 404 (ill.).