La Cheminée
inscribed on recto lower right: G Braque / 28
verso on stretcher upper left brown yellowed label in black: REG. NO CASB NO 3 / CARNEGIE INSTITUTE PITTSBURGH [...] U.S.A.; thereon in black: 693 [illegible] [hs]; thereon top left on white background in black: 207; top left brown, yellowed, slightly detached label in black and blue: TABLEAU [...] / PEINTRE: [...] / PROPRIETAIRE: Paul Rosenberg / ADDRESS: Rue de la Boetie / Priere de coller avec soin des etiquettes [. ...] au chassis [...] [hs]; top middle brown yellowed slightly detached label with decorative frame in black: CARNEGIE INS [...] / PITTSBURGH PENSILVANIA / FRANCE / Catalogue No. 222 / [...]ife" by Georges B [...]; below this label a further label pasted over in black below right: PARIS [illegible]; top middle yellowed brown label in black: Exposition de [...] / 08 / M Stöqrque [illegible] / M [...] [illegible] [hs]; top centre in black: ZH 2872 [crossed out] [hs]; top centre brown yellowed label in black, slightly detached at the corners: ROBINOT Frères & Cie / [...] Rue de Cherche-Midi - PARIS (6) / BRUXELLES / Exposition BRAQUE / (Cie...) [crossed out and illegible] [ms]; centre left brown yellowed partly detached label in black: PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS DE BRUXELLES / 10, RUE ROYALE / Auteur: Braque / Titre de l'œuvre: [... ] [ms]; centre brown yellowed label in two parts, heavily detached in black: EGIE IN [...] UTE / RGH PENN [...] VANIA / FRANCE / [...]talogue No. 22[...] / [...]rges Braq[...] [ms]; centre in red: 1727 [underlined and illegible] [hs]; centre right in blue: B-2-4 [hs]; below left small white yellowed KHZ label with black border in black: INVENTAR NR 1956/10; below centre white yellowed partly detached label in black: Kunsthalle Basel / No. 122; below centre red down stamp: H [illegible]; verso on canvas top left in white: box I / 3llot [hs]; top right in white: 2-4 / [circled]. left red round stamp: II/66; below right in white: [circled slash]; verso on backing top centre: white KHZ label; top centre: green KHZ label; top centre: orange label: Attention Glass; top centre: white label in black: YAMOTO FINE ARTS; top right: [circled slash]. on white cardboard white yellowed label in black: HAUS DER KUNST MÜNCHEN [no information on the exhibition]; below white yellowed label in black and blue: REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX / [blue stamp illegible] / Titre de l'oeuvre: La cheminée / Propriétaire: Zurich Kunsthaus / No du Catalogue: 72 [hs]; below blue label in white: Galerie des Beaux-Arts BORDEAUX / Musée d'Art Moderne Strassbourg / EXPOSITION / Braque en Europe / 14 Mai - 1er Septembre 1982 / 11 Septembre - 28 Novembre 1982 / Catalogue no; right next to it white yellowed label in blue: fondation maeght, 06570 saint-paul, tél. (93) 328163 / in black: Georges BRAQUE / LA CHEMINEE 1923 / Huile sur toile / 130x74 cm / Kunsthaus, Zurich [ms]; on it in red: 84 [hs]; below white yellowed slightly detached label in black: LOUISIANA HAEMLEBEK DANMARK / Museum for moderne [illegible] /; in grey: Georges Braque / Kaminen, 1929 / Kunsthaus Zürich / 225. [ms]; below white label in blue: fondation maeght, 06570 saint-paul /; in black: Georges BRAQUE / LA CHEMINEE / 1923 / Huile sur toile / 130x74 cm / Kuunsthaus, Zurich / Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde [ms]; below white label in black: THE SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM [underlined] / BECKMANN AND PARIS / The Saint Louis Art Museum, Feb 6-May 9, 1999 / catalogue #65 / Georges Braque / The Fireplace, 1923 / Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde / [address in Missouri]; below white label in black: [Logo Reunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN) Paris] Georges Braque / Galeries Nationales de Grand Palais, Paris / 16 septembre 2013 du 6 janvier 2014 / La cheminée - 1956/10 / Huile sur toile / Kunsthaus / Suisse-Zurich; in red: No Régie 283; below left two white KHZ labels
at the latest from 16.10.1930 - no later than 11.1936, Paul Rosenberg (*1881 Paris, +1959 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris) (art dealer), Paris
[whereabouts unknown?]
at the latest from 11.1936 - n.d., Albert Bellanger (collector), Paris
[whereabouts unknown?]
Oppenheimer/Fabiani, Paris
1954 - 13.4.1956, Walter Feilchenfeldt (art dealer), Zurich
from 13.4.1956, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde (collection), Zurich, purchase
from 13.4.1956, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (museum), Zurich, loan
The provenance between 1933 and 1945 has not been clearly clarified or has gaps. The available research does not provide any evidence of Nazi-looted art. However, there are indications of Nazi-looted art and/or conspicuous accompanying circumstances. The provenance must be investigated further.
Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link
Nicole S. Mangin: Catalogue de l’oeuvre de Georges Braque. Bd. III, Peintures 1928-1935, Paris: MAEGHT Editeur, 1962, o.S., o.Nr. (1928 - La Cheminée).
Marco Valsecchi/Massimo Carra: L’opera completa di Braque dalla scomposizione cubista al recupero dell’oggetto 1908-1929, Mailand: Rizzoli Editore, 1971, Nr. 200.
Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 624.
Kunsthaus Zürich
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8001 Zürich
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