Provenance
1Dr. Paul Gachet Auvers-sur-Oise • ca. 1873 until [d.] 1909 Acquired from the artist, Cézanne to Van Gogh, The Collection of Doctor Gachet, (exh. cat.) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York etc. 1999, p. 201, no. P.G. II-9.
2Paul Gachet Jr. Auvers-sur-Oise • 1909 until after 1936 Son of the above, Cézanne to Van Gogh, as above n. (1).
3B. Pellet Paris • after 1936 Acquired from the above, Cézanne to Van Gogh, as above n. (1).
4Galerie Wildenstein Paris • by 1953 AStEGB, Invoice (transcript) from Société Anonyme de Beaux-Arts, Vaduz [Wildenstein], made out to Emil Bührle, 17 July 1953, for seven paintings, including Cézanne, Fleurs et fruits, for a total amount of $ 255.000 (+ one separate invoice for an 8th painting at $ 105.000).
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 4 August 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Invoice as above, n. (4); AStEGB, Correspondence between Emil Bührle and Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 29–31 July 1953, regarding payment of $ 360.000 to Société Anonyme de Beaux-Arts, Vaduz, for 8 paintings, including Cézanne, Fleurs et fruits; Letter from Société Anonyme de Beaux-Arts, Vaduz, to Emil Bührle, 4 August 1953, acknowledging receipt of the above amount.
6The estate of Emil Bührle Zurich • 1956–1967 The artworks that were not given to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection in 1960 were divided among Emil Bührles’s son, Dr. Dieter Bührle, and his daughter, Hortense Anda-Bührle in 1967.
7Dr. Dieter Bührle Zurich • 1967 until [d.] 2012 Son of Emil Bührle and, in 1960, along with his mother Charlotte Bührle-Schalk and his sister Hortense (Anda-)Bührle one of the three founders of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, where he served on the Board from 1960 to 2012.
8Bequest of Dr. Dieter Bührle to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection 2012 Inv. 176.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich