Provenienz
1Private collection Paris AStEGB, File regarding provenance and references for Chagall, Mariage russe (Inv. 19), and three more paintings acquired at the same time, including Fantin-Latour, Pivoines et pêches, attached to Letter from Max Kaganovitch, Paris, to Emil Bührle, 1 March 1954, accompanying an Invoice from Max Kaganovitch, Paris, made out to Kunsthaus Zurich, 1 March 1954 for three paintings (not including Fantin-Latour, Pivoines et pêches); the file mentions Fantin-Latour’s Pivoines et pêches, and an otherwise unidentified «Mr. Perol, Paris» as a previous owner.
2Max Kaganovitch Paris • by 1954 AStEGB, Inventory Card Fantin-Latour, Pivoines et pêches, and File as above, n. (1).
3Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 March 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above on 10 March 1954 for FF 5.5 Mio., AStEGB, Handwritten note by Emil Bührle, attached to Invoice as above, n. (1), and indicating «Fantin-Latour 5.5. Mill.»; AStEGB, Payment order from Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 10 March 1954, ordering transfer of FF 13.3 Mio. to Max Kaganovitch, covering the purchase price for four paintings, including Fantin-Latour, Roses et pêches, signed «reçu Max Kaganovitch».
4The estate of Emil Bührle Zurich • 1956–1967 The artworks that were not given to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection in 1960 were divided among Emil Bührles’s son, Dr. Dieter Bührle, and his daughter, Hortense Anda-Bührle in 1967.
5Dr. Dieter Bührle Zurich • 1967 until [d.] 2012 Son of Emil Bührle and, in 1960, along with his mother Charlotte Bührle-Schalk and his sister Hortense (Anda-)Bührle, one of the three founders of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, where he served on the Board from 1960 to 2012.
6Bequest of Dr. Dieter Bührle to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection 2012 Inv. 177.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich