Georges Rouault

Georges Rouault
Le Couple (La Loge), 1905
Gouache on paper, on panel, 96.5 x 79.5 cm
Signed and dated upper right
Dorival no. 305
Provenance
Marcel Noréro, Paris (1) ▪ Private collection, Lucerne (2) ▪ Max Kaganovitch, Paris (1934–1951) (3) ▪
Emil Bührle, Zurich (14 August 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (4) ▪ Given by the heirs of Emil
Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 91 (1960).
(1) Catalogue des tableaux […] formant la collection de M. Marcel Noréro […], (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (14
February 1927), no. 85; Tableaux modernes […], (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (27 February 1928), no. 149.
(2) Catalogue des tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins […] provenant de la "Collection de L'Art
Moderne", Lucerne (Suisse), (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (20 June 1935), no. 64.
(3) AStEGB, Letter from Max Kaganovitch, Paris, to Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle collection],
7 February 1952.
(4) Acquired from the above for CHF 120.000, AStEGB, Entry Book I, 31 July 1951, with indication of price;
Inventory Card Rouault, Le Couple, for the date of acquisition.
Exhibitions
Na výstavě francouzského maliřství od Manet po dnešek pořádane [Französische Malerei von Manet
bis heute], S.V.U. Mánes, Prague 1937, no. 78. ▪ Fourth Exhibition "La Flèche d’Or”, Important
Pictures from French Collections, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London 1938, no. 30. ▪ Œuvres choisies
(des 19ème et 20ème siècles), Galerie Kaganovitch, Paris 1938, no. 38. ▪ Georges Rouault, Gemälde,
Aquarelle, Druckgraphik aus den Jahren 1893–1948, Kunsthaus Zurich 1948, no. 8. ▪ Œuvres
choisies du XXe siècle, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris 1951, no. 41. ▪ Georges Rouault,
Rétrospective, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1952 (not in catalogue). ▪ Georges Rouault, Musée
national d'art moderne, Paris 1952, no. 13. ▪ Rouault, Première période 1903–1920, Centre Georges
Pompidou (Musée national d'art moderne, Paris; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Fribourg 1992 (exhibited in
Fribourg only, not in cat.). ▪ Georges Rouault, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Lugano 1997, no. 7. ▪ Georges
Rouault, "Forme, couleur, harmonie", Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg 2006–07,
fig. 8.
References
James Thrall Soby, Georges Rouault, Paintings and Prints, New York 1945, p. 37 (ill.; [exh. cat.]
Museum of Modern Art). ▪ Edward Alden Jewell, Georges Rouault, New York 1945, (ill., unpaginated).
▪ Edward Alden Jewell, Georges Rouault, New York 1947, fig. 17 (French edition: Paris 1947). ▪
Lionello Venturi, Georges Rouault, Geneva 21948, p. 55, fig. 14/20. ▪ Pierre Courthion, Georges
Rouault, Paris 1962, p. 92. ▪ Pierre Courthion, Georges Rouault, Leben und Werk, Cologne 1962, pp.
124, 494, fig. 37. ▪ Bernard Dorival, Isabelle Rouault, Rouault, L'œuvre peint, vol. 1, Monte Carlo
1988, no. 305 (ill.).
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 91; 1973/86, no. 113; 2004/05, no. 143. ▪
Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 1958, no. 278; Munich 1958–59, no. 137; Edinburgh
1961, no. 70; London 1961, no. 70; Zurich 2010, no. 91.
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Status as per January 2016
www.buehrle.ch / [email protected]
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