Nature morte aux fleurs et à l'idole
recto not inscribed; on the old back cover: top centre label with Meander border: Peintre: Gauguin / Sujet: Nature Morte / Collection: V. Golouben[?] / 26, Avenue du B[illegible]; left on the cardboard with pen in black: Victor Goloule[illegible] / 26 avenu[illegible]"; top right torn off label with red single border with pen in red: [illegible]a[illegible]illea; below small label at the beginning of the century triple blue border with arrows in the corners with pen in blue: 6156; small label with angled corners double blue border with pen in blue: L / 243; below label: Gustav Knauer, Berl[illegible] / 1029 [1539?] / Kunst-Abte[illegible]; various remnants of other labels. Remains of further labels (fragments); centre brown label with pen in red: 24.801 [24.601?; underlined]; below white label: E.J.VAN WISSELINGH & Co. / Rokin 78 & 80 AMSTERDAM TELEFOON 44448 / TABLEAUX MODERNES, AQUARELLES, / ET EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES / No. 2278X / ARTIST P.GAUGUIN / TITEL NATURE MORTE‘; below centre red label: Tentoanstelling / ’HET STILLEVEN" / Kunsthandel / J. GOUDSTIKKER N. V. / Amsterdam / 18 Febr. t/m 26 Maart 1933 / No. 361; half-torn white label at bottom left, stamped: O'HANA GALLERY / 13, CARLOS PLACE / LONDON, W1; above in blue: P. Gauguin / Nature Morte; same stamp again above on the cardboard, below in blue: 13; round customs stamp: DOUANE FRANCAISES; inside: Recette / de 8ème[?] / Chapelle [twice]; customs stamp: DOUANES EXPOSITION / PARIS; customs stamp illegible; white label below right: PITT & SCOTT LTD / LONDON / ITEM No. 2154 / A/N No. BO 1007
1928 - at least until 1934, Alfred Gold (*1874 Vienna, +1958 New York, NY) (collector), Berlin
probably, 1931 - at least until 22.11.1932, E. J. van Wisselingh & Co. (art trade), Amsterdam, commission, as "Nature morte"
[whereabouts unknown? ]
before 1937, Galerie Fritz Gurlitt (gallery), Berlin
[whereabouts unknown?]
Arthur Jeffress (*1905, +1961) (collector), London
Gerald Corcoran (art dealer), London, purchase
1938 - 1950, Arthur Byron, London, purchase
1950 - 1953, Alex Reid & Lefevre (gallery), London, purchase
1953 - n.d., Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (*1932 Paris, +2016 Mount Kisko, NY) (collector), New York, purchase
[whereabouts unknown?]
probably, O'Hana Gallery, London
[whereabouts unknown?]
Galerie Wildenstein (gallery), Paris
Walter Haefner (*1910, +2012 Zurich) (collector), purchase
11.9. 1974 - 1995, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, loan
from 31 May 1995, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, gift, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of AMAG, Zurich
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
Daniel Wildenstein: Gauguin. Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage. Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888), Bd. 1, Milan: Skira, 2001, S. 494.
Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 242.
Kunsthaus Zürich
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