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Paul Gauguin

The Road

1884

La Route montante

Oil on canvas

46 x 38 cm

Signed & dated lower left: P. Gauguin 84

Wildenstein 127

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Provenance

1Richard Semmel Switzerland & Holland • by 1933/37 Wildenstein (2001), no. 127; Collection d’un amateur, Tableaux modernes de l’école française des XIX^eet XX^esiècles, (sale cat.) Frederik Muller, Amsterdam (13 June 1933), no. 15 (bought in); Tableaux anciens […] & tableaux modernes […] provenant des collections de feu M. Paul Chavan, Genève et de divers amateurs genevois, (sale cat.) Galerie Max Moos, Geneva (20 March 1937), no. 63. The Wildenstein catalogue tentatively identifies as a previous owner of the painting Eduard Simon-Wolfskehl, Frankfurt (M.), based upon an erroneous reading of Peter Kropmanns, Gauguin und die Schule von Pont-Aven im Deutschland nach der Jahrhundertwende, Sigmaringen 1997, pp. 52, 67, n. 160, and an equally erroneous identification of the painting with a painting lent by Simon-Wolfskehl to an exhibition in Frankfurt in 1912, Die Klassische Malerei Frankreichs im 19. Jahrhundert, Kunstverein Frankfurt/M. 1912, no. 53. Whilst no identification of La Route montante with the painting in the Simon-Wolfskehl collection is suggested by Kropmanns, the painting lent to the 1912 exhibition was in fact Wildenstein (1964) no. 526.

2Emil Bührle Zurich • 20 March 1937 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired at the 1937 sale as above, n. (1), for CHF 9.000, AStEGB, Inventory Card Gauguin, Route montante.

3Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 48.

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

Exhibitions

18868^eExposition de peinture 1, rue Laffitte, Paris • 1886 no. 55 (?).

1913Oktober-Ausstellung Kunsthalle Basel • 1913 no. 47 (?).

1928Paul Gauguin 1848–1903 Galerie Thannhauser • Berlin • 1928 no. 7.

1949Paul Gauguin zum 100. Geburtstag Kunstmuseum Basel • 1949-50 not in cat.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 48.

2010A City for Impressionism, Monet, Pissarro and Gauguin in Rouen • Une ville pour l’impressionnisme, Monet, Pissarro et Gauguin à Rouen Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen • 2010 no. 32.

2017Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l’Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 32.

2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 13.

References

1964Georges Wildenstein Gauguin vol. 1 • Catalogue • Paris • 1964 • no. 117 (ill.).

1986Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 79 (ill.; ²1986).

1997Peter Kropmanns Gauguin und die Schule von Pont-Aven im Deutschland nach der Jahrhundertwende Sigmaringen • 1997 • pp. 52 • 67 • n. 160.

2001Daniel Wildenstein Gauguin, Premier itinéraire d’un sauvage, Catalogue de l’œuvre peint (1873–1888) vol. 2 • Paris & Milan • 2001 • no. 127 (ill.).

2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 122 • (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog; Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2005Gauguin and Impressionism (exh. cat.) Ordrupgaard Copenhague Kimbell Art Museum • Fort Worth (Texas) 2005–06 • pp. 201–202 • fig. 152 • (Danish edition: Gauguin og impressionismen).

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. 14 (ill.).