Emil Bührle Collection

Juan Gris

The Pear

1919

La Poire

Oil on canvas

33 x 41 cm

Signed & dated lower left: Juan Gris 5-19

Cooper 301

Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 2 vol., Paris, 1977 (2Catalogue raisonné of the Paintings, [Alan Hyman, Elizabeth Snowden ed.], San Francisco 2004).

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Provenance

1Léonce Rosenberg Paris Galerie de l’Effort moderne, Inventory no. L.R. 6342, Cooper no. 301.

2Maurice Meunier Paris Cooper no. 301.

3Max Kaganovitch Paris AStEGB, Entry Book II, 13 March 1956.

4Emil Bührle Zurich • 5 March 1956 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Entry Book as above, n. (3), with reference to the date of purchase. An invoice, made out by Max Kaganovitch to Emil Bührle on 23 February 1956, for the present still life and the still life Cooper no. 304 (Inv. 57) gives the figure of FF 1.5 mio. (= CHF 18.000) for each of the two paintings. Compared with a still life by Gris (Cooper no. 443) which Bührle purchased in the same month from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, and for which he paid CHF 60.000, the figure in the invoice is likely to represent only that part of the total amount which was paid openly via the Franco-Swiss Clearing.

5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 56.

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

Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 2 vol., Paris, 1977 (2Catalogue raisonné of the Paintings, [Alan Hyman, Elizabeth Snowden ed.], San Francisco 2004).

Exhibitions

1955Juan Gris Kunstmuseum Bern • 1955–56 no. 70.

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. 296.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 81.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 56.

2013Cubisti, Cubismo Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2013 no. 48.

References

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 128 (ill.; 21986).

1977Douglas Cooper Juan Gris, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint vol. 2 • Paris • 1977 (2Catalogue raisonné of the Paintings, [Alan Hyman, Elizabeth Snowden ed.], San Francisco 2004), no. 301 (ill.).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 36 (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. 133 (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. 504 (ill.).