The Couple · Georges Rouault · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle

Georges Rouault

The Couple

1905

Le Couple (La Loge)

Gouache on paper on wood

96.5 x 79.5 cm

Signed & dated upper right: G. Rouault 1905

Dorival 305

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Marcel Noréro Paris • 1927/28 Catalogue des tableaux […] formant la collection de M. Marcel Noréro […], (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (14 February 1927), no. 85; Tableaux modernes […], (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (27 February 1928), no. 149.

2Max Kaganovitch Paris • 1934–1951 AStEGB, Letter from Max Kaganovitch, Paris, to Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle collection], 7 February 1952; in 1935, Kaganovitch offered the painting at a sale in Paris, with a reference to a previous ownership in Lucerne, Catalogue des tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins […] provenant de la «Collection de L’Art Moderne», Lucerne (Suisse), (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (20 June 1935), no. 64. From 1941 to 1945, with a short interrupt in 1942, and again from 1950 to 1951, the painting was on deposit with other artworks in the possession of Max Kaganovitch at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Archive of the Kunstmuseum Bern, Inventory Book Loans (B-001-005).

3Emil Bührle Zurich • 14 August 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 120.000, AStEGB, Entry Book I, 31 July 1951, with indication of price; Inventory Card Rouault, Le Couple, for the date of acquisition; Inventory Book as above, n. (2), second deposit 1950–1951, with an indication «an Bührle».

4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 91.

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

Exhibitions

1937Na výstavě francouzského maliřství od Manet po dnešek pořádane [Französische Malerei von Manet bis heute] S.V.U. Mánes • Prague • 1937 no. 78.

1938Fourth Exhibition «La Flèche d’Or”, Important Pictures from French Collections Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd. • London • 1938 no. 30.

1938Œuvres choisies (des 19ème et 20ème siècles) Galerie Kaganovitch • Paris • 1938 no. 38.

1942Jeunes peintres français et leurs maîtres Musée de l’Athénée, Geneva • Kunsthaus Zurich • Kunsthalle Berne, Kunsthaus Lucerne • 1942–43 no. 34.

1948Georges Rouault, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Druckgraphik aus den Jahren 1893–1948 Kunsthaus Zurich • 1948 no. 8.

1951Œuvres choisies du XXe siècle Galerie Max Kaganovitch • Paris • 1951 no. 41.

1952Georges Rouault, Rétrospective Palais des Beaux-Arts • Brussels • 1952 (not in catalogue).

1952Georges Rouault Musée national d’art moderne • Paris • 1952 no. 13.

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. 278.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no.137.

1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 70.

1992Rouault, Première période 1903–1920 Centre Georges Pompidou • Musée national d’art moderne, Paris • Musée d’art et d’histoire, Fribourg • 1992 (exhibited in Fribourg only, not in cat.).

1997Georges Rouault Museo d’Arte Moderna • Lugano • 1997 no. 7.

2006Georges Rouault, «Forme, couleur, harmonie» Musée d’art moderne et contemporain • Strasbourg • 2006–07 fig. 8.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 91.

References

1945James Thrall Soby Georges Rouault, Paintings and Prints New York • 1945 • p. 37 (ill.; [exh. cat.] Museum of Modern Art).

1945Edward Alden Jewell Georges Rouault New York • 1945 • (ill., unpaginated).

1947Edward Alden Jewell Georges Rouault New York • 1947 • fig. 17 (French edition: Paris 1947).

1948Lionello Venturi Georges Rouault Geneva • ²1948 • p. 55, fig. 14/20.

1962Pierre Courthion Georges Rouault Paris • 1962 • p. 92.

1962Pierre Courthion Georges Rouault, Leben und Werk Cologne • 1962 • pp. 124, 494, fig. 37.

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 113 (ill.; 21986).

1988Bernard Dorival • Isabelle Rouault Rouault, L’œuvre peint vol. 1 • Monte Carlo • 1988 • no. 305 (ill.).

2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 143 (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. 201 (ill.).