Provenance
1Arthur Fontaine Paris • Wildenstein no. 598.
2Joseph Hessel Paris Archive Kunstverein Basel, Letter from Arthur Fontaine, Paris, to Dr. Wilhelm Barth [curator of the Kunsthalle], Basel, 18 April 1928, answering a loan request for his Gauguin paintings by stating that he has sold the one that was left to him after a partition of the family collection to J. Hessel, Paris (State Archives Basel-Stadt, Archive of the Basler Kunstverein, PA 888a, N 6 [1], 239 I).
3Bernheim Paris Wildenstein no. 598.
4Edwin M. Otterbourg New York Wildenstein no. 598.
5Josef Stransky New York • before 1925 Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making, New York & Washington D.C. • 1926 • p. 36, fig. 44
6Vandyck Gallery Washington D.C. • by 1925 The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the E. G. Bührle Collection, (exh. cat.), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. etc., 1990/91, entry for cat. no. 56, based upon information then received from the archive of the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
7Duncan Phillips Washington D.C. • 1925–1936 Acquired from the above, exh. cat. as above, n. (5).
8Newhouse Gallery New York • by 1936 Acquired from the above, exh. cat. as above, n. (5). An involvement of the Knoedler Gallery, New York, is suggested by the fact that the painting, in 1935, was lent via M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, to an exhibition, One Hundred Years of French Painting 1820–1920, (exh. cat.) William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art & Mary Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City 1935, no. 26.
9Aline Barnsdall Beverly Hills • California • until [d.] 1946 Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica (California) Knoedler Gallery Archive, Stock Book 10, p. 84, no. A5035.
10The Estate of Aline Barnsdall 1946–1952 Stock Book as above, n. (7); the stock book indicates a joint ownership with David Devine Guardianship.
11M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York • 1952 Stock Book as above, n. (7).
12Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • 1952 Acquired from the above on 7 August 1952, Stock Book as above, n. (7).
13Emil Bührle Zurich • 7 August 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, AStEGB, Entry Book I, 15 July 1952, identifying Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, as the consignor; Inventory Card Gauguin, Idylle à Tahiti, identifying Dr. Arthur Kauffmann, London, as the seller. Although the date of purchase given on the card is 25 July 1952, the date recorded here is the date of the settlement of accounts by Nathan with Knoedler. The nature of Kauffmann’s involvement in the transaction remains unspecified.
14Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 45
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
