Sep 4, 2019

Cailleux in the Emile Buehrle Collection

Two of the artworks on the Buehrle Foundation Website mention Cailleux in their provenance: François-André Vincent's "Young Lady with a Turban" and Francesco Guardi's The Crucifixion.


Their provenance is reproduced below:



François-André Vincent: Young Lady with a Turban

ca. 1774
(Jeune femme au turban)
Oil on canvas
∅ 56 cm
Cuzin Nr. 146P

Provenance


1Galerie Cailleux Paris AStEGB, Correspondence between P. Cailleux, Paris, and Emil Bührle, 2 May–2 June 1947, regarding import and purchase of the painting Jeune femme au turban, considered then to be by Fragonard and believed to be representing the artist's wife.
2Emil Bührle Zurich • 2 June 1947 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for FF 1'000'000, AStEGB, Letter from P. Cailleux, Paris, to Emil Bührle, 2 June 1947, acknowledging receipt of the above amount, to balance invoice (now lost) of 5 May 1947.
3Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 132.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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Francesco Guardi: The Crucifixion

1740/50
(Il crocifisso con le tre Marie e S. Giovanni)
Oil on canvas
72.5 x 55.5 cm
Morassi 177

Provenance


1Liselotte Leuner Chaumercenne  • Haut-Saône • by 1952 Jean-Petit-Matile, «Découverte d'un chef- d'œuvre de Francesco Guardi», in Vie, Art, Cité (15/3) 1952, p. 36–37 (ill.).
2Art market Paris • 1952 Tiepolo et Guardi, Galerie Cailleux, Paris 1952, not in catalogue; Giuseppe Fiocco, «Il problema di Francesco Guardi"», in Arte Veneta (6) 1952, p. 118, fig. 125**.
3Dr. Hans Wendland Paris AStEGB, Correspondence between H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, acting on behalf of his brother-in-law, Dr. Hans Wendland, and Emil Bührle/Peter Dietschi [curator of the Bührle collection], 4 September–16 October 1956.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 October 1956 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired through the medium of H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, from the above for CHF 62.000, Invoice from H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, made out to Emil Bührle, 4 September 1956; Letter from H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, to Emil Bührle, 28 September 1956, with regard to the payment of the above sum and handwritten note by Emil Bührle: «10. X. 56. via Ihag p. Scheck bez.». See also Letter from H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, to Emil Bührle, 13 September 1956, accompanying 3 expert's reports by Giuseppe Fiocco, Hermann Voss and Rodolfo Pallucchini (now lost).
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich, Inv. 143 (1960).
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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see also: The Emil Bührle Collection: Works of international artists – the complete list
Lukas Gloor



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