Italian Woman · Pablo Picasso · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle

Pablo Picasso

Italian Woman

1917

L'Italienne

Oil on canvas

149 x 101.5 cm

Signed, inscribed & dated upper left: Picasso Rome 1917

Zervos, III-18

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Jane Wildenstein (Mme Georges Wildenstein) Paris • 1917/18 until at least 1939 Letter from Gustav Kahnweiler, Ffestiniog (Merioneth), to Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle collection], 30 November 1954, regarding provenance of and references to Picasso, L’Italienne: The painting was purchased in 1917/18 by Mrs. G . Wildenstein. When exhibited in 1932 in the Kunsthaus Zurich, the loan was handled by Mr. Georges Wildenstein, the painting being marked «for sale» (Kunsthaus Zurich, Archive Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich, Ausstellung/Händler 1932, Picasso, Price List for the paintings lent by Wildenstein: L’Italienne delivered on 12 September 1932 by Mr. Montag, priced FF 375.000). It was again exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1934 (Michael FitzGerald, Making Modernism, Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art, Berkeley etc. 1997, p. 225), and at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1939 (Archive Kunsthalle Bern, Ausstellungen, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger…, Letters from Wildenstein Gallery, Paris, to Kunsthalle Bern, 26 April 1939, and from G. Bondy [Wacker-Bondy], Paris, to Max Huggler [Director of the Kunsthalle Bern] 6 June 1939).

2Gustav Kahnweiler Cambridge • by 1954 AStEGB, Correspondence between Gustav Kahnweiler, Ffestiniog (Merioneth) and Emil Bührle (or Dr. Walter Drack), 20 October–30 November 1954, regarding the import of Picasso, L’Italienne, and an appointment with Bührle in Zurich (on 24 October 1954).

3Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 December 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 180.000, AStEGB, Letter from Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.], Zurich, to Hermann Rupf-Wirz, Bern, 9 December 1954, accompanying a check for CHF 180.000; Letter from Hermann Rupf, Bern, to Oerlikon Bührle & Co., Zurich, 10 December 1954, acknowledging receipt of the check for CHF 180.000, to pay for G. Kahnweiler’s Picasso. An invoice by Heinz Berggruen, Paris, to Emil Bührle of 2 December 1954 for the amount of $ 5.000 was made out as a custom duty formality, AStEGB Correspondence between Gustav Kahnweiler, Ffestiniog (Merioneth), Heinz Berggruen, Paris, and Dr. Walter Drack, 4 December–8 December 1954.

4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 78.

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

Exhibitions

1932Picasso Kunsthaus Zurich • 1932 no. 95.

1934Pablo Picasso Wadsworth Atheneum • Hartford (Connecticut) • 1934.

1939Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger, Borès, Beaudin, Viñes Kunsthalle Bern • 1939 no. 20.

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. 306.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 119.

1960Picasso The Arts Council of Great Britain (Tate Gallery) • London • 1960 no. 85.

1964Chefs-d’œuvres des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso Exposition nationale suisse (Palais de Beaulieu) • Lausanne • 1964 no. 234.

1966Hommage à Pablo Picasso Grand & Petit Palais • Paris • 1966–67 no. 102.

1968Pablo Picasso Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst • Vienna • 1968 no. 30.

1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100^th 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. 82.

1996Canto d’Amore, Klassizistische Moderne in Musik und bildender Kunst 1914–1935 Kunstmuseum Basel • 1996 no. 85.

1998Picasso, 1917–1924, Le voyage d’Italie Palazzo Grassi • Venice • 1998 no. 47

2001Picasso und die Schweiz Kunstmuseum Bern • 2001 no. 65.

2001Ornament und Abstraktion, Kunst der Kulturen, Moderne und Gegenwart im Dialog Fondation Beyeler • Riehen/Basel • 2001 no. 158.

2005Picasso surreal Fondation Beyeler • Riehen/Basel • 2005 p. 83.

2008Picasso Harlequin, 1917–1937 Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2008–09 no. 1.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 78.

2010Picasso, His First Museum Exhibition 1932 (Picasso, Die erste Museumsausstellung 1932) Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010–11 no. 36.

2012Raffaello verso Picasso, Storie di sguardi, volti e figure Basilica Palladiana • Vicenza • 2012–13 no.76.

2017Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l’Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 49.

2017Picasso Between Cubism and Classicism, 1915–1925 Scuderie del Quirinale • Rome • 2017–18 no. 9.

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. 62.

References

1942Joan Merli Picasso Buenos Aires • 1942 • fig. 226 (²1948).

1949Christian Zervos Pablo Picasso vol. 3, Œuvres de 1917 à 1919 • Paris • 1949 • fig. 7, no. 18.

1955Wilhelm Boeck • Jaime Sabartés Picasso Paris • 1955 • p. 171 (ill.; German edition: Stuttgart 1955; ²1961; English edition: London 1961).

1959René Elvin «Collector Extraordinary: The Bührle Collection and the New Zurich Kunsthaus» in The Studio (158) • 1959 • p. 53 (ill.).

1961Reginald H. Wilenski • Roland Penrose Picasso, Early Years London • 1961 • (German edition: Picasso, Die frühen Jahre, Berlin 1961, p. 14, fig. 6).

1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) • New York • 1963 • p. 222.

1972Fiorella Minervino • Franco Russoli L’opera completa di Picasso cubista Milan • 1972 • no. 896 (ill.; ²1981; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Picasso, Kubistische Epoche, Lucerne etc. 1972 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Picasso cubista, Barcelona 1973; ²1978 • French edition: Françoise Cachin, Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’œuvre peint de Picasso 1907–1916, Paris 1977).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 138 (ill.; ²1986).

1987Pierre Daix Picasso créateur, La vie intime et l’œuvre Paris • 1987 • pp. 163, 416.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 52 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995)

1995The Picasso Project (ed.) Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973 vol. 1, From Cubism to Neoclassicism 1917–1919 • San Francisco • 1995 • no. 17-172 (ill.).

1995Pierre Daix Dictionnaire Picasso Paris • 1995 • p. 465 (²Le nouveau Dictionnaire Picasso, Paris 2012, p. 461).

1997Michael FitzGerald Making Modernism, Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art Berkeley etc. • 1997 • pp. 115, 225.

1997Anne Baldassari Picasso and Photography, The Dark Mirror (exh cat.) Museum of Fine Arts • Houston (Texas) • 1997 • (French edition: Le miroir noir, Picasso, sources photographiques 1900–1928, [exh. cat.] Musée Picasso 1997, pp. 223–225, entry for cat. no. 224 • Italian edition: Picasso e la fotografia, Lo specchio nero, Florence 1998).

1999Josep Palau i Fabre Picasso, Dels ballets al drama 1917–1926 Barcelona • 1999 • no. 83 (ill.; English edition: Picasso, From the Ballets to Drama 1917–1926, Barcelona 1999 • French edition: Picasso, Des ballets au drame 1917–1926, Cologne 1999 • German edition: Picasso, Von den Balletts zum Drama 1917–1926, Cologne 1999 • Spanish edition: Picasso, De los ballets al drama 1917–1926, Barcelona 1999).

2002Elizabeth Cowling Picasso, Style and Meaning London & New York • 2002 • pp. 308–311, fig. 267.

2003Brigitte Léal etc. The Ultimate Picasso New York • 2003 • fig. 424.

2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 141 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2005Maria de los Santos García Felguera • Carlos G. Navarro «Corot y los pintores españoles» in Corot, Naturaleza, Emoción, Recuerdo (exh. cat.) • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza • Madrid • 2005 • pp. 109–110, 359, fig. F.9.

2006Suite française, Dessins de la collection Jean Bonna (exh. cat.) • Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Artsm, Paris • Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva • 2006–07 • pp. 378, 380–381 (fig. 4).

2007Valentina Moncada Picasso in Rome Milan • 2007 • pp. 7, 13–15, 42 (ill.), back cover ill.

2007John Richardson A Life of Picasso vol. 3, The Triumphant Years 1917–1932 • New York • 2007 • pp. 12–13 (ill.), 14, 18, 23.

2008Yves-Alain Bois «Picasso le trickster» in Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne (106) • 2008/09 • p. 10 (ill. left).

2009Picasso, Challenging the Past (exh. cat.) • National Gallery • London • 2009 • p. 61 (ill.).

2011Vivien Stein Heinz Berggruen, Leben und Legende Zurich • 2011 • pp. 152, 185–187, 494, n. 18, 20–23.

2017Ricard Bru «Chronology» in 1917 Picasso in Barcelona (exh. cat.) • Museu Picasso • Barcelona • 2017–18 • p. 163 (ill. top right).

2020Picasso Méditerranée Paris • 2020 • p. 142–144 (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. 420 (ill.).