Emil Bührle Collection

Marc Chagall

The Russian Wedding

1909

Le Mariage russe

Oil on canvas

68.5 x 97.5 cm

Signed & dated, in Cyrillic and Roman characters, lower right: Chagall 1909

Meyer 15

Franz Meyer, Marc Chagall, Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1968.

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Provenance

1Maxim Moisevitch Vinaver St. Petersburg & Paris • 1909 possibly until [d.] 1926 Acquired from the artist, AStEGB, Letter from Franz Meyer, Paris [the artist’s son-in-law] to Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection], 20 July 1954, stating that, according to the artist, Vinaver left Russia for Paris at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, and took the painting with him. It was sold in Paris, possibly after Vinaver’s death in 1926; see the obituary for Vinaver by Marc Chagall, «In memory of M. M. Vinaver [in Russian]», in Raszviet, Paris, 24 October 1926, p. 11

2Alice Manteau Paris • by 1929 AStEGB, File regarding provenance and references for Chagall, Mariage russe, attached to Letter from Max Kaganovitch, Paris, to Emil Bührle, 1 March 1954, accompanying invoice from Max Kaganovitch, Paris, made out to Kunsthaus Zurich, 1 March 1954, for three paintings, including Chagall, Mariage russe; Marc Chagall, André de Ridder (ed.), Antwerp 1929, p. 66 (ill.).

3Mme Lucien Paris File as above, n. (2).

4J. Nash Paris File as above, n. (2).

5Galerie Max Kaganovitch Paris • by 1954 AStEGB, Invoice as above, n. (2).

6Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 March 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Invoice as above, n. (2), made out for three paintings, including Chagall, Le Mariage russe, for a total sum of FF 5.900.000, with authorization for payment, initialed by Bührle. A second copy of this invoice has a handwritten note of Emil Bührle attached to it which lists the three paintings referred to in the invoice, again for a total sum of FF 5.900.000, but with the remark «off.»[iziell] and a second line «réelle» and the amount of FF «7.800.000 + 5.5 Fantin-Latour»; this latter reference is to a Still Life by Fantin-Latour, acquired by Bührle at the same time (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 177); AStEGB, Payment order from Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 10 March 1954, ordering transfer of FF 13.3 Mio. to Max Kaganovitch, signed «reçu Max Kaganovitch».

7Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 19

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

Franz Meyer, Marc Chagall, Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1968.

Exhibitions

1910Exhibition organized by the Zvanseva School (Editorial offices of the Apollon art magazine) • St. Petersburg • 1910 no cat.  

1955Marc Chagall Kestner-Gesellschaft • Hannover • 1955 no. 5.  

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. 286.  

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 not in catalogue. 

1959Marc Chagall Haus der Kunst, Munich • 1959 no. 12a • Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan), Paris • 1959 no. 28. 

1967Chagall Kunsthaus Zurich • 1967 no. 7. 

1969Marc Chagall Grand Palais • Paris • 1969–70 no. 4. 

1984Marc Chagall Galerie Beyeler • Basel • 1984–85 no. 1. 

1985Chagall Royal Academy of Arts • London • 1985 no. 9. 

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 19.

References

1923Karl With Marc Chagall Leipzig • 1923 • p. 9, fig. 1.

1929Paul Fierens Marc Chagall Antwerp & Paris • 1929 • fig. 1.

1929André de Ridder (ed.) Marc Chagall Antwerp • 1929 • p. 66 (ill.).

1921Abram Efross • Jakov Tugendhold Die Kunst Marc Chagalls Potsdam • 1921 • p. 48.

1946James Johnson Sweeny Marc Chagall (exh. cat.) • Museum of Modern Art • New York • 1946 • p. 15 (ill.).

1957Walter Erben Marc Chagall Munich • 1957 • p. 28.

1959Marcel Brion Marc Chagall Paris • 1959 • p. 11 (ill.; German edition: Güterlsoh 1959 • English edition: New York 1961).

1961Franz Meyer Marc Chagall, Leben und Werk Cologne • 1961 • pp. 70–71, no. 15 (ill.).

1967Renata Negri «Marc Chagall» in L’Arte moderna (86) • 1967 • p. 163 (ill.).

1971Valentine Marcadé Le renouveau de l’art pictural russe 1893–1914 Lausanne • 1971 • p. 230.

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 140 (ill.;21986).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 52 (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. 117 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2016Musicircus, Œuvres phares du Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne (exh.cat.) • Centre Pompidou-Metz • Metz • 2016 • p. 20 (ill. lower right).

2019Itzhak Goldberg Chagall Paris • 2019 p. 86, fig. 81.

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. 363 (ill.).