Provenance

1Ambroise Vollard Paris Pierre Courthion, Georges Rouault, Leben und Werk, Cologne 1962, pp. 466, 501, no. 269 (ill.).

2Georges Wildenstein New York AStEGB, Inventory Card Rouault, Clown à la table. A different source indicates an involvement of Galerie Bignou, New York, Adward Alden Jewell, Georges Rouault, New York 1945 (ill., without page numbers, crediting a «Private Collection» as the painting’s owner and Bignou Gallery, New York, as the source of the photography).

3Carstairs Gallery New York • by 1951 until 1953 Archive Kunstmuseum Bern, Inventory Book Loans (B-001-005), Record of a deposit by Max Kaganovitch of Roault’s Clown at a Table at the Kunstmuseum Bern on 27 September 1951, the paintig being registered as no. 1343. Identified as the (co-)owner is Carstairs Gallery, New York, then managed by Georges Keller who had close ties to the Kunstmuseum Bern. The date of the painting’s removal is indicated as 25 November 1953, an additional note states that it was custom cleared for Mr. Bührle, and the price is given as CHF 12.780.

4Max Kaganovitch Paris • by 1951 until 1953 Inventory Book as above, n. (3) and Inventory card as above, n. (2).

5Emil Bührle Zurich • 15 November 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Inventory Book as above, n. (3) and Inventory Card as above, n. (2).

6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 92.

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