Vincent van Gogh - Stiftung Sammlung EG Bührle

Vincent van Gogh
Peasant Woman, Head, 1885
Oil on canvas, on panel, 41 x 30.5 cm
De la Faille no. 80
Provenance
Kunstzaal Oldenzeel, Rotterdam (1) ▪ W. G. H. van Houweninge, Rotterdam (2) ▪ Kunstzaal
d'Audretsch, The Hague (1925) (3) ▪ Dr. Gustav Schweitzer, Berlin (4) ▪ Private collection, France (5)
▪ Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich (6) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (2 April 1941 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (7) ▪
Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 52 (1960).
(1) De la Faille no. 80.
(2) Sale W. G. H. van Houweninge, van Marle & de Sille, Rotterdam (21–22 April 1925), no. 254, de la Faille no.
80.
(3) Acquired at the above sale (?), de la Faille no. 80; 50 Jahre holländischer Malerei 1875–1925, (exh. cat.)
Potsdamer Kunstsommer (Orangerie im Park Sanssouci), Potsdam 1925, no. 36.
(4) Bilder […] aus […] Berliner Privatsammlungen […] Sammlung Dr. S./Berlin, (sale cat.) Galerie Paul Cassirer,
Berlin (20 October 1932), no. 125 (ill.).
(5) De la Faille no. 80.
(6) AStEGB, Receipted invoice from Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich, made out to Emil Bührle, 2 April 1941.
(7) Acquired from the above for CHF 12'000, Receipted invoice as above, n. (6).
Exhibitions
50 Jahre holländischer Malerei 1875–1925, Potsdamer Kunstsommer (Orangerie im Park Sanssouci),
Potsdam 1925, no. 36. ▪ Ausländische Kunst in Zürich, Kunsthaus Zurich 1943, no. 710. ▪ Vincent
van Gogh 1853–1890, Kunsthalle Basel 1947, no. 17. ▪ Vincent van Gogh, Kunsthaus Zurich 1954,
not in cat. ▪ Liebermann und Van Gogh, Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, Berlin 2015, no. 29.
References
Jacob-Baart de la Faille, L'œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonné, Paris & Brussels 1928,
vol. 1, Tableaux, texte, no. 80, vol. 2, Tableaux, planches, fig. 22 (bottom left). ▪ Jacob-Baart de la
Faille, Vincent van Gogh, Paris 1939, no. 86 (ill.). ▪ Maurice Raynal, Histoire de la peinture moderne,
vol. 1, De Baudelaire à Bonnard, Naissance d'une vision nouvelle, Geneva 21949, p. 68 (ill.). ▪ JacobBaart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam 1970, no.
F 80 (ill.). ▪ Paolo Lecaldano, L'opera pittorica completa di van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici, vol. 1, Da
Etten a Parigi, Milan 1971, no 88 (ill.; 21977; French edition: Tout l'œuvre peint de Vincent van
Gogh, vol. 1, Paris 1971; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk des Van Gogh, vol. 1, Von Etten
bis Paris, Lucerne etc. 1971; Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Van Gogh, vol. 1,
Barcelona 1972). ▪ Jan Hulsker, Van Gogh en zijn weg, Het complete werk, Amsterdam 1977, no.
681 (ill.; 21979, 31985, 41985, 51986, 61989; English edition: The Complete van Gogh, Paintings,
Drawings, Sketches, Oxford & New York 1980). ▪ Rainer Metzger, Ingo F. Walther, Vincent van Gogh,
Sämtliche Gemälde, Cologne 1989, vol. 1, Etten, April 1881–Paris, Februar 1888, p. 86 (ill. right;
2
1993; 32001). ▪ Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh, Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue
Raisonné of the Works of Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam & Philadelphia 1996, no. 681 (ill.). ▪ Ingo F.
Walther, Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890, Vision und Wirklichkeit, Cologne 2016, p. 6 (ill.).
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 52; 1973/86, no. 84; 2004/05: no. 127. ▪
Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zürich 1958, no. 235; Zurich 2010, no. 52. ▪ Articles on the
Bührle Collection: Wild 1953, pp. 23 (ill.), 28.
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 2017
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