Provenance
1Mr. Baumgartner Haid/Konzell • Lower Bavaria AStEGB, Letter from Julius Böhler, Munich, to Emil Bührle, 18 March 1953, according to which the sculpture had been kept previously in a chapel near Haid/Konzell (Lower Bavaria); Mr. Baumgartner is identified as the owner of a brewery.
2Julius Böhler Munich AStEGB, Request for an import licence for a wooden sculpture, filled out on behalf of Emil Bührle, 5 January 1953, and identifying Julius Böhler, Munich, as the provider of a wooden sculpture Virgin and Child, sent to Switzerland on 2 October 1952. The declared value is CHF 15.600.
3Emil Bührle Zurich • 9 December 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, AStEGB, Entry Book I, 31 October 1952, and Letter from Julius Böhler, Munich, to Emil Bührle, 9 December 1952, acknowledging receipt of an amount of DM 10.300 to cover an invoice (now lost) of 9 November 1952.
4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. P29.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Exhibitions
2016Heiliger Besuch, Gotische Skulpturen der Sammlung E.G. Bührle und Madonnenbilder von Annelies Štrba Museum zu Allerheiligen • Schaffhausen • 2016 no. 16.
2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 4.
2019Verehrt, Geliebt, Vergessen, Maria zwischen den Konfessionen Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt (Augusteum) • Wittenberg • 2019 no. 22.
References
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 178 (ill.; 21986).
2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. S10 (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. 576 (ill.).