Provenance
1Private collection Riehen • by 1942 AStEGB, Receipted invoice from Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich, made out to Emil Bührle 19 April 1943, identifying the Butte Pinson as no. 171 of an Utrillo exhibition in Basel 1942 (Maurice Utrillo, Kunsthalle Basel 1942), listed in the catalogue as Private Collection, Riehen. Contrary to two other paintings with the same title, listed in the exhibition catalogue (nos. 169 and 186), the surviving correspondence of the Kunsthalle Basel does not allow to identify the lender of no. 171 (State Archives Basel-Stadt, Archive of the Kunstverein Basel, PA 888a, N 6 [1] 368, File regarding Utrillo-Exhibition 1942).
2Galerie Aktuaryus Zurich • by 1943 AStEGB, Receipted invoice as above.
3Emil Bührle Zurich • 22 April 1943 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 11.000, Receipted invoice as above, n. (1), receipt dated 22 April 1943.
4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 109
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich