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Théodore Géricault

Dogs Fighting Bears

1812/16

Combat de chiens et d'ours

Oil on canvas

28 x 37 cm

Bazin 769

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Maurice Gobin Paris AStEGB, Letter from Max Kaganovitch, Paris, to Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection], 16 October 1953.

2Max Kaganovitch Paris • by 1953 Letter as above, n. (1).

3Emil Bührle Zurich • 15 August 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for FF 3.200.000, AStEGB, Notes regarding a visit of Max Kaganovitch in Oerlikon, 25 September 1953, with handwritten note «Géricault / FF 3.200.000 /– 900.000 payé à Paris / 2.300.000 / 900.000 à payer par le clearing» and Invoice («Facture conditionnelle») from Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris, made out to Kunsthaus Zurich, 21 July 1953 for the painting with a price of FF 900.000; Inventory Card Géricault, Combat, indicates 15 August 1953 as date of acquisition.

4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 133.

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

Exhibitions

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. 106.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 65.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 133.

References

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 11 (ill.;²1986).

1980Philippe Grunchec • Jacques Thuillier L’opera completa di Géricault Milan • 1978 • no. 118 (ill.; ²1981; French edition: Tout l’œuvre peint de Géricault, Paris 1980; ²1991).

1989Germain Bazin • Théodore Géricault Etude critique et catalogue raisonné vol. 3 La gloire de l’Empire et la Première Restauration Paris • 1989 • no. 769.

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 65 (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. 300 (ill.).