Emil Bührle Collection

Vincent van Gogh

Blossoming Chestnut Branches

1890

Branches de marronnier en fleur

Oil on canvas

73 x 92 cm

De la Faille 820

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1The artist’s family For the succession upon the death of the artist, see Chris Stolwijk, Han Veenenbos, The Account Book of Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam & Leiden 2002, pp. 21–22.

2Dr. Paul Gachet Auvers-sur-Oise • 1890 until [d.]1909 Received as a gift from the artist’s family, Cézanne to Van Gogh, The Collection of Doctor Gachet, (exh. cat.) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York etc. 1999, p. 256, no. P.G.III-13.

3Paul Gachet, Jr. Auvers-sur-Oise • 1909–1912 Son of the above, exh. cat. as above, n. (2).

4Galerie Bernheim-Jeune Paris • 1912 Acquired from the above on 9 March 1909, exh. cat. as above, n. (2).

5Franz von Mendelssohn Berlin • by 1914 until [d.] 1935 Vincent van Gogh, (exh. cat.) Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1914, no. 135.

6Dr. Peter Nikolaus Witt Bern • by 1951 Grandson of Franz von Mendelssohn (and son of Emma Witt-von Mendelssohn), AStEGB, Letter from Dr. Peter N. Witt, Bern, to Emil Bührle, 31 January 1951, confirming conversation of the same day regarding the sale of two paintings by Vincent van Gogh, «Le champ de blé jaune» [F.717] and «Branches de marronniers en fleurs» [F.820] from the collection of his grandfather for CHF 550.000.

7Emil Bührle Zurich • 11 February 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, AStEGB, Letter from Emil Bührle to Dr. Peter N. Witt, Bern, 3 February 1951, acknowledging receipt of the above letter, and announcing the transfer of CHF 550.000 for the two paintings; Letter from Dr. Peter N. Witt, Bern, to Emil Bührle, 11 February 1951, acknowledging receipt of CHF 550.000; Entry Book I, 15 January 1951, identifies Dr. F. Nathan as the consignor and indicates a price of CHF 280.000. The price for [F.717], consigned by Nathan on 5 January 1951, is indicated in the Entry Book as being CHF 350.000; however, when the painting was lent for a reproduction to a printing firm in Zurich shortly thereafter, it was insured for a sum of CHF 300.000, AStEGB, Insurance Policy from Helvetia Feuer St. Gall made out to J. E. Wolfensberger, Zurich, 19 July 1951; hence it seems fair to assume that the prices given in the Entry Book I were asking prices, and the prices individually paid for the two paintings were CHF 300.000 for F.717 and CHF 250.000 for F.820 respectively.

8Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 53.

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

Exhibitions

1905Exposition rétrospective Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) 21e Exposition de la Société des Artistes Indépendants (Grandes Serres de la Ville de Paris) • Paris • 1905 no. 23.

1914Vincent van Gogh Galerie Paul Cassirer • Berlin • 1914 no. 135.

1927Das Stilleben in der deutschen und französischen Malerei Galerie Matthiesen • Berlin • 1927 no. 122.

1928Vincent van Gogh, Gemälde Galerie Paul Cassirer • Berlin • 1928 no. 92.

1955Europäische Meister 1790–1910 Kunstmuseum Winterthur • 1955 no. 104.

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. 246.

1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen • Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 48.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 77.

1959De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d’œuvre français des collections suisses Petit Palais • Paris • 1959 no. 69.

1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 61.

1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100th 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. 63.

2005Blumenmythos, Von Vincent van Gogh bis Jeff Koons • Flower Myth, Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons Fondation Beyeler, Riehen 2005, no. 51.

2006Van Gogh in Budapest (Van Gogh Budapesten) Szépművészeti Múzeum • Budapest • 2006–07 no. 71.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 53.

2011In the Presence of Things, Four Centuries of Europena Still-Life Painting, Part 2, 19th–20th Centuries (1840–1955) (A Perspectiva das Coisas, A Natureza-Morta na Europa, 2ta parte, Séculos XIX–XX [1840–1955]) Calouste Gulbenkian Museum • Lisbon • 2011–12 no. 17.

2017Calme et Exaltation, Van Gogh dans la Collection Bührle • Calm and Exaltation, Van Gogh in the Bührle Collection Fondation Vincent van Gogh • Arles • 2017 no. 2.

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. 48.

2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 46.

2019Van Gogh, Stillleben Museum Barberini • Potsdam • 2019–20 no. 27.

2023 Van Gogh & Auvers Van Gogh Museum • Amsterdam • 2023 no. 6

2024 Matthew Wong – Vincent van Gogh Kunsthaus • Zürich • 2024-2025 no. 143

References

1904Julius Meier-Graefe Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst Stuttgart • 1904 • p. 120, n. 1.

1927Georg Biermann «Das Stilleben in der deutschen und französischen Malerei» in Cicerone (19) • 1927 • p. 151 (ill. bottom).

1928Jacob-Baart de la Faille L’œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonné • Paris & Brussels • 1928 • vol. 1 Tableaux, texte no. 820 • vol. 2 Tableaux, planches fig. 229.

1928Paul Gachet (jr.) Souvenirs de Cézanne et de Van Gogh Paris • 1928 • no. III/13.

1932Willem Scherjon Catalogue des tableaux par Vincent van Gogh décrits dans ses lettres, Périodes: St-Rémy et Auvers-sur-Oise Utrecht • 1932 • no. 118, fig. 120.

1937Willem Scherjon • Willem Josyah de Gruyter Vincent van Gogh’s Great Period, Arles, St-Rémy, Auvers-sur-Oise (Complete Catalogue) Amsterdam • 1937 • p. 314 (ill.).

1939Jacob-Baart de la Faille Vincent van Gogh Paris • 1939 • no. 747 (ill.).

1952Marco Valsecchi Vincent van Gogh Milan • 1952 • fig. 28.

1953Willem Josyah de Gruyter • Emmy Andriesse (photography) Die Welt von Van Gogh • Le monde de van Gogh • The World of Van Gogh The Hague etc. • 1953 • p. 128 (ill., bottom).

1959André Chamson • François Daulte De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d’œuvre d’art français des collections suisses Paris • 1959 • (ill.).

1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) • New York • 1963 • p. 221.

1970Jacob-Baart de la Faille The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings Amsterdam • 1970 • no. F 820 (ill.).

1970Karla Höcker Hauskonzerte in Berlin • Berlin • 1970 (ill., Franz v. Mendelssohn in his music room, with the painting on the wall).

1971Paolo Lecaldano L’opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici, vol. 2, Da Arles a Auvers • Milan • 1971 • no. 805 (ill.; 21977; French edition: Tout l’œuvre peint de Vincent van Gogh, vol. 2, Paris 1971 • German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk des Van Gogh, vol. 2, Von Arles bis Auvers, Lucerne etc. 1971 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Van Gogh, vol. 2, Barcelona 1971).

1972Jacques Lassaigne Vincent van Gogh Milan • 1972 • p. 66 (ill.; German edition: Munich 1973).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 89 (ill.; 21986).

1977Jan Hulsker Van Gogh en zijn weg, Het complete werk Amsterdam • 1977 • no. 2010 (ill.; 21979, 31985, 41985, 51986, 61989; English edition: The Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Oxford & New York 1980).

1986Ronald Pickvance Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers (exh. cat.) • Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York • 1986–87 • p. 319.

1987Alain Mothe Vincent van Gogh à Auvers-sur-Oise Paris • 1987 • p. 37 (ill., bottom).

1988Walter Feilchenfeldt Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cassirer Berlin • The Reception of Van Gogh in Germany from 1901 to 1914 • Zwolle • 1988 v p. 123.

1989Rainer Metzger • Ingo F. Walther Vincent van Gogh, Sämtliche Gemälde • Cologne; 1989 • vol. 2 • Arles; Februar 1888–Auvers-sur-Oise, Juli 1890 • p. 640 (ill.; 21993; 32001; Hungarian edition: Van Gogh, A festői életmű, Budapest 2005).

1993Martha Kapos (ed.) The Post-Impressionists, A Retrospective London & New York • 1993 • fig. 56.

1994Paul Gachet Les 70 jours de van Gogh à Auvers, Essai d’ephéméride dans le décor de l’époque (20 mai–30 juillet 1890, d’après les lettres, documents, souvenirs et déductions (Auvers-sur-Oise 1959), Alain Mothe (ed.) • Paris • 1994 • p. 53.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 7 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

1996Jan Hulsker The New Complete Van Gogh, Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent van Gogh Amsterdam & Philadelphia • 1996 • no. 2010 (ill.).

1999Cézanne to Van Gogh, The Collection of Doctor Gachet (exh. cat.) • Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York etc. • 1999  • p. 256, no. P.G.III-13 (ill.; French edition: Un ami de Cézanne et Van Gogh, Le docteur Gachet, Grand Palais, Paris).

1999Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov Van Gogh in Provence and Auvers Southport (Connecticut) • 1999 • p. 255 (ill.).

2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 132 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2005Thomas Lackmann Das Glück der Mendelssohns Berlin • 2005 • p. 434.

2007Stefan Koldehoff «Van Gogh in Germany until 1918, Catalogue of Collections and Exhibitions» in Van Gogh and Expressionism (exh. cat.) • Neue Galerie • New York • 2007 • p. 171.

2009Walter Feilchenfeldt Vincent van Gogh, Die Gemälde 1886–1890, Händler, Sammler, Ausstellungen, Die frühen Provenienzen Wädenswil • 2009 • p. 246 (ill.).

2009Peter Knapp • Wouter van der Veen Vincent van Gogh à Auvers Paris • 2009 • p. 84 (ill.)–85 (English edition: Van Gogh in Auvers, His Last Days, New York 2010).

2012Cornelia Homburg (ed.) Van Gogh Up Close New Haven & London • 2012 • fig. 186.

2015Hans-Ulrich Thamer Kunst Sammeln, Eine Geschichte von Leidenschaft und Macht Darmstadt • 2015 • p. 165.

2016Sjraar van Heugten Van Gogh in Provence, Modernizing Tradition, (exh. cat.) • Fondation Vincent van Gogh • Arles • 2016 • pp. 118–119, fig. 98 (French edition: Van Gogh en Provence: la tradition modernisée).

2016Bernhard Echte, Walter Feilchenfeldt (ed.) Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer vol. 6 Die Ausstellungen 1912–1914 Wädenswil • 2016 • pp. 769 (ill.), 775.

2017Jan Blanc Van Gogh, Ni dieu, ni maître Paris • 2017 • fig. 349.

2017Sjraar van Heugten «Vincent van Gogh and the seasons: Images of nature and humanity» in Van Gogh and the Seasons (exh. cat.) • National Gallery of Victoria • Melbourne • 2017 • pp. 56 (ill.), 58.

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. 189 (ill.).

2021Martin Bailey Van Gogh’s Finale: Auvers & the Artist’s Rise to Fame London • 2021, p. 77–78, fig. 64.