Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse
Pont Saint-Michel, effet de neige, 1897
Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm
Signed with monogram lower left: H M
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (1) ▪ Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (2) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (21 May
1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (3) ▪ Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G.
Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 67 (1960).
(1) AStEGB, Letter from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, to Walter Drack, 7 December 1954, with a list of
provenances for 6 paintings bought by Emil Bührle, including Matisse, Le Pont Saint-Michel.
(2) Archive Marlborough International Fine Art, Copy of letter from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz
[Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London] to Emil Bührle, 17 May 1954, accompanying AStEGB, Invoice from Trafo,
Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], made out to Emil Bührle, 17 May
1954.
(3) Acquired from the above for CHF 75.000, Invoice as above n. (2), and AStEGB, Letter from Industrie- und
Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 21 May 1954, confirming transfer of the above amount.
Exhibitions
Französische Malerei von Delacroix bis Picasso; Peintures françaises de Delacroix à Picasso; French
Painting from Delacroix to Picasso, Stadthalle Wolfsburg 1961, no. 94. ▪ Die Ile de France und ihre
Maler, Nationalgalerie (Orangerie Schloss Charlottenburg), Berlin 1963, no. 58. ▪ Henri Matisse,
Zwanzig auserlesene Werke; Twenty Important Paintings, Marlborough Galerie, Zurich 1971, no. 1. ▪
Paris sous le ciel de la peinture, Hôtel de Ville, Salle Saint-Jean, Paris, 2000, p. 157 (ill.). ▪ Matisse e
Bonnard, Viva la pittura!, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome 2006–07, no. 73. ▪ Matisse, Paires et
séries, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2012, no. 1; Matisse, In Search of True Painting, Statens Museum for
Kunst, Copenhagen 2012, no. 3. ▪ Matisse en son temps, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny 2015,
no. 1.
References
Leopold Reidemeister, Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France, Topographische Beiträge zur
Geschichte der französischen Landschaftsmalerei von Corot bis zu den Fauves, Berlin 1963, p. 180
(ill.). ▪ Jack Flam, Matisse, The Man and His Art 1869–1918, Ithaca (N.Y.) & London 1986, p. 94, fig.
80.
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 67; 1973/86, no. 109; 1994/95, pp. 32, 34;
2004/05: no. 136. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 1958, no. 293; Berlin 1958, no. 65;
Munich 1958–59, no. 103; Washington D.C. etc. 1990–91, no. 74; Zurich 2010, no. 67.
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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