Emil Bührle Collection

Maurice Utrillo

La Butte Pinson

ca. 1905

Oil on canvas

38 x 46 cm

Signed lower left: Maurice U. Valadon

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Provenance

1Galerie van Leer Paris • until 1929 The Swiss Art Archives at SIK-ISEA, Zurich, Stock Book Dr. Willi Raeber Gallery, HNA 213A.1 (25 March 1926 – October 1955), p. 28, 34.

2Galerie Dr. Willi Raeber Basel Acquired from the above in November 1929 for CHF 2.000, Stock Book as above, n. (1).

3Dr. Walter Hanhart Riehen Acquired from the above in April 1934 for CHF 3’500, Stock Book as above, n. (1), p. 39.

4Galerie Dr. Willi Raeber Basel Bought back from the above on 10 April 1943 for CHF 6.000, Stock Book HNA 213A.2 (November 1933 – March 1969), p. 83.

5Galerie Aktuaryus Zurich Acquired from the above for CHF 8.000 in April 1943, Stockbook as above, n. (4) and AStEGB, Receipted invoice from Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich, made out to Emil Bührle on 19 April 1943.

6Emil Bührle Zurich Acquired from the above on 22 April 1943 until (d.) 28 November 1956, for CHF 11.000, Receipted invoice as above, n. (5), receipt dated 22 April 1943; the invoice identifies the painting as having been exhibited as no. 171 in the exhibition Maurice Utrillo at the Kunsthalle Basel, 1942, corroborating the information that Dr. Walther Hanhart had been the painting’s previous owner, since he can be identified as the lender of no. 171 in the surviving correspondence of the Kunsthalle Basel, State-Archive Basel-Stadt, Archive of the Kunstverein Basel, PA 888a, N 6 [1] 368, File regarding Utrillo-Exhibition 1942.

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

Exhibitions

1942Maurice Utrillo Kunsthalle • Basel • 1942 no. 171.

1943Ausländische Kunst in Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 1943 no. 699.

1949Maurice Utrillo, Werke aus schweizerischem Privatbesitz Kunsthalle Bern • 1949 no. 10.

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. 283.

1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London 1961 no. 77.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 109.

References

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 130 (ill.; 21986).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 51 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 158 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

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. 107 (ill.).