Provenienz
1Alexandre Natanson Paris Catalogue des importants tableaux modernes, pastels, aquarelles, dessins. Collection Jules Strauss (sale cat.) Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 15 December 1932, no. 26; AStEGB, Invoice from Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, made out to Emil Bührle, 17 October 1951.
2Bernheim-Jeune Paris • 1914 Acquired from the above, Dauberville no. 636 (with a mistaken reference to a previous ownership by Thadée Natanson, Alexandre’s brother).
3Jules Strauss Paris • 1932, sale cat. as above, n. (1).
4Jean Decrou until 1951, acquired at an unknown place at an unknown date, possibly after 1936 when Decrou became Embassy Secretary at the Swiss Embassy in Paris.
5Galerie Paul Vallotton Lausanne • by 1951 Acquired from the above for CHF 21.000 on 28 July 1951, document from Archives Galerie Paul Vallotton/Archives City of Lausanne; AStEGB, Letter from Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, to Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection], 5 February 1952.
6Emil Bührle Zurich • 22 October 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 25.000, Invoice as above, n. (1), and AStEGB, Letter from Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.] to Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, 22 October 1951, confirming transfer of the above amount within the next days. Regarding an intermediary role of Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, see Archives Galerie Paul Vallotton/Archives City of Lausanne letter from Galerie Paul Vallotton to Fritz Nathan, 17 October 1951.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich