Fruits and Knife · Paul Gauguin · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle

Paul Gauguin

Fruits and Knife

1901

Nature morte au couteau

Oil on canvas

66 x 75 cm

Signed & dated lower left: Paul Gauguin 1901

Wildenstein 607 (PGAG4R)

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Druet Paris • by 1913 Archive Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, «Liste des tableaux provenant de la succession Max Meirowsky, déposés au Musée d’art et d’histoire, Etat de conservation», signed by the executor and dated 18 February 1950, no. 6, Gauguin, P., Nature morte, Aubergines, Huile sur toile, 66/75 cm, acquis en 1913 chez Druet, rue Royale, à Paris.

2Dr. Max Meirowsky Cologne, Berlin & Geneva • 1913 until [d.] 1949 Acquired from the above, List as above, n. (1). Nature morte: aubergines, was one of 13 paintings Max Meirowsky brought with him when he left Germany via Holland, and settled in Geneva, on 5 September 1939, where he passed away on 1 December 1949. Meirowsky’s ownership of the painting is also stated in AStEGB, Invoice from Anstalt für Kunsthandel, Vaduz [Wildenstein & Co.], made out to Emil Bührle on 24 October 1953; Letter from Daniel Wildenstein, New York, to Emil Bührle, 9 November 1953, enclosing an additional pedigree (now lost) of the painting.

3The estate of Dr. Max Meirowsky 1949 until at least 1952 The paintings from the estate were deposited by the executor at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva between February 1950 and March 1952, List as above, n. (1); Archive Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Oeuvres des la collection Max Meirowsky remises de 21 mars 1952 à la maison Rod. Haller, transports, and signed «reçu des tableaux en bon ordre ce 21 mars 1952».

4Wildenstein & Co. New York • by 1953 Invoice, as above, n. (2).

5Emil Bührle Zurich • 6 November 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above on 6 November 1953, for $ 66.000, trading in a painting by Toulouse-Lautrec, La Buveuse d’absinthe (D.P307), acquired from Wildenstein on 4 August 1953 for $ 41.000, plus a transfer of $ 25.000, Invoice as above, n. (2); Payment order from Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 4 November 1953, regarding a payment of $ 25.000 to Anstalt für Kunsthandel, Vaduz; Confirmation of payment of $ 25.000 to Anstalt für Kunsthandel, Vaduz, from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 6 November 1953.

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 Zurich • 2012 Inv. 178.

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

Exhibitions

1951De Watteau à Cézanne Musée d’Art et d’Histoire • Geneva • 1951 no. 73.

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. 252.

1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen • Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 42.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunstm • Munich • 1958–59 no. 62.

1959De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d’œuvre français des collections suisses Petit Palais • Paris • 1959 no. 58.

1963Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Französische Meister von Delacroix bis Matisse Kunstmuseum Lucerne • 1963 no. 37.

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. 57.

2005Gauguin, Van Gogh, L’avventura del colore nuovo Museo di Santa Giulia • Brescia • 2005–06 no. 146.

2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 59.

2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 40.

References

1944Maurice Malingue Gauguin Monaco • 1944 • p. 156, no. 73.

1950Lee Van Dovski Gauguin Olten & Berne • 1950 • p. 345, no. 379.

1957Arnold Kübler «Die Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle» in Du (17, no. 12) • 1957 • p. 48 (ill.).

1964Georges Wildenstein Gauguin vol. 1 Catalogue • Paris • 1964 • no. 607 (ill.).

1972Gabriele Mandel Sugana L’opera completa di Gauguin Milan • 1972 • no. 416 (ill.), fig. 50 (21981; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Gauguin, Lucerne etc. 1972 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica di Gauguin, Barcelona 1973 • French edition; Tout l’œuvre peint de Gauguin, Paris 1981).

2006Brigitte Monti «Max Meirowski, industriel, collectionneur, émigrant» in Geneva, La Revue des musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève (64) • 2006 • pp. 71, 75.

2021Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., (ed.) Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1891–1903 Texts by Richard R. Brettell and Elpida Vouitsis, Research by Françoise Marnoni, Evgenia Kuzmina, and Jennifer Gimblett, [URL] (accessed on 8 July 2021), no. PGAG4R (ill.).

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. 328 (ill.).