Emil Bührle Collection

Paul Cézanne

The Old Gardener

1906

Le Jardinier Vallier

Oil on canvas

65 x 54 cm

Rewald 953

John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vol., New York 1996. See also: The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cézanne, An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash, www.cezannecatalogue.com

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Provenance

1Ambroise Vollard Paris AStEGB, Reply from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, to an enquiry by Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection], 28 May 1955, regarding provenance of 7 paintings, acquired by Emil Bührle.

2The estate of Ambroise Vollard Paris Rewald no. 953.

3Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London Acquired from the above, Information given by Marlborough International Fine Art to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 24 August 2012; AStEGB, Letter accompanying invoice from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz, signed by F. K. Lloyd [Head of Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], to Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.], Zurich, 1 February 1954, and Archive Marlborough International Fine Art, Copy of invoice (made available to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection by Marlborough International Fine Art, 24 August 2012) from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], made out to Emil Bührle, 1 February 1954, for two paintings, including Cézanne, Jardinier Vallier.

4Emil Bührle Zurich • 2 February 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 180.000, along with a painting by Juan Gris, Arlequin assis à la guitare [Cooper 321], for a total of CHF 245.000, Invoice (copy) as above, n. (3); Receipt from Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, Zurich, made out to Emil Bührle, 2 February 1954, regarding transfer of CHF 245.000 to Trafo, Vaduz.

5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 14 

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

John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vol., New York 1996. See also: The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cézanne, An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash, www.cezannecatalogue.com

Exhibitions

1956Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Kunsthaus Lempertz) • Cologne • 1956–57 no. 33. 

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. 231. 

1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 54. 

2000Cézanne, Vollendet, Unvollendet Kunstforum, Vienna • Kunsthaus Zurich • 2000 no. 39. 

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 14. 

2013Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del ‹900 Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2013–14 no. 21.

2016Storie dell’impressionismo, I grandi protagonisti da Monet a Renoir da Van Gogh a Gauguin Museo di Santa Caterina • Treviso • 2016–17 no. 134. 

2017Paul Cézanne, Le Chant de la terre Fondation Pierre Gianadda • Martigny • 2017 no. 104. 

2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 42.

2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 50.

References

1936Lionello Venturi Cézanne, Son art, son œuvre Paris • 1936 • vol. 1, Texte, no. 1524, vol. 2, Planches, fig. 388 (top left).

1937John Rewald «A propos du catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre» in Renaissance de l’art français (March/April) 1937 • p. 55.

1961Paul Cézanne (exh. cat.) • Belvedere • Vienna • 1961 • entry for cat. no. 82.

1970Alfonso Gatto • Sandra Orienti L’opera completa di Cézanne Milan • 1970 • no. 617 (ill.; 21979; English edition: Ian Dunlop, Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Cézanne, Middlesex & New York 1970; 21972; 31985 • German edition: Oskar Bätschmann, Sandra Orienti, Das Gesamtwerk von Cézanne, Lucerne etc. 1970 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Cézanne, Barcelona 1970; 21977 • French edition: Sandra Orienti, Gaëtan Picon, Tout l’œuvre peint de Cézanne, Paris 1975; 21995).

1971Kurt Badt Das Spätwerk Cézannes Konstanz • 1971 • pp. 31, 33 (ill.).

1971René Huyghes Impressionism Secaucus (New Jersey) • 1971 • p. 236 (ill.).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 57 (ill.; 21986).

1978Lionello Venturi Cézanne Geneva • 1978 • p. 128 (ill.; 21991, p. 122 [ill.]).

1977Cézanne, The Late Work (exh. cat.) • Museum of Modern Art, New York etc. • 1977 • p. 236, fig. 28.

1979Richard Shone The Post-Impressionists London • 1979 • fig. 135.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 43 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

1995Walter Feilchenfeldt «Cézanne’s Collectors, From Zola to Annenberg» in Cézanne (exh. cat.) • Philadelphia Museum of Art etc. • 1995 • p. 578 (French edition: Paul Cézanne, Une rétrospective, Grand Palais, Paris • German edition: Walter Feilchenfeldt, «Cézannes Sammler, Von Zola bis Annenberg», in «By Appointment Only», Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und van Gogh, Wädenswil 2005, p. 194).

1996John Rewald The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné London & New York • 1996 • vol. 1 • no. 953; vol. 2, fig. 953.

2004Maurice Merleau-Ponty O olho e o espírito São Paulo • 2004 • fig. 10.

2004Bertram Schmidt Cézannes Lehre Cologne • 2004 • pp. 151–152, fig. 21.

2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 116 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2008Aviva Burnstock «Impressionist Paintings in the Courtauld Gallery: Making Inferences from Recent Technical Studies» in Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung (22) • 2008 • p. 295, fig. 11 (detail).

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. 347 (ill.).