The Vaudeville Show Magician · Edouard Vuillard · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle

Edouard Vuillard

The Vaudeville Show Magician

ca. 1895

Le Numéro d'illusionniste

Oil on cardboard, on wood

49 x 39 cm

Signed lower right: E. Vuillard

Salomon/Cogeval III-50

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Provenance

1Sergei Shchukin Moscow • until 1900 Sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris (24 March 1900), no. 23, Salomon/Cogeval no. III-50.

2Bernheim Jeune Paris • by 1905 Inventory no. 10469, Salomon/Cogeval no. III-50.

3Edouard Vuillard Paris • 1905 Acquired from the above on 3 May 1905 for FF 472.50, Salomon/Cogeval no. III-50.

4Prince Antoine Bibesco Paris • [d.] 1951 Salomon/Cogeval no. III-50.

5Mrs. Priscilla Hodgson, née Countess Bibesco London & Paris Daughter of the above, AStEGB, Reply from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, to an enquiry by Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle collection], 28 May 1955, regarding provenance of seven paintings acquired by Emil Bührle, including Vuillard, Le Numéro d’illusionniste.

6Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1955 AStEGB, Invoice from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], made out to Emil Bührle, 31 January 1955, for two paintings, including Vuillard, Le Numéro d’illusionniste.

7Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 February 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, along with the painting Homme au violon by Georges Braque (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 9), for a total amount of CHF 189.000, Invoice as above, n. (6), and AStEGB, Letter from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 3 February 1955, confirming transfer of the above amount.

8Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 113.

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

Exhibitions

1955Twentieth Century Masters Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1955 no. 69.

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. 266.

1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 63.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 173.

1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 68.

1972Weltkulturen und moderne Kunst, Die Begegnung der europäischen Kunst und Musik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert mit Asien, Afrika, Ozeanien, Afro- und Indo-Amerika Haus der Kunst • München • 1972 no. 899.

1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100^th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 72.

2003Edouard Vuillard (1868–1940) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal • Grand Palais, Paris • Royal Academy of Art, London • 2003–04 no. 62 (exhibited in Paris and London only).

2008Édouard Vuillard Staatliche Kunsthalle • Karlsruhe • 2008–09 no. 73.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 113.

2017Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l’Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 40.

2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 33.

References

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 105 (ill.; ²1986).

1993Guy Cogeval Vuillard, Le temps détourné Paris • 1993 • p. 43 (ill.).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 50 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2003Antoine Salomon • Guy Cogeval Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels Paris & Milan • 2003 • vol. 1 • no. III-50 (ill.).

2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 163 (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. 427 (ill.).