Edouard Manet Le Suicidé, ca. 1877 Oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm Signed lower right: Manet Rouart/Wildenstein no. 258 Provenance Donated by the artist to a sale to benefit the composer Jean de Cabanes (1881) (1) ▪ Durand-Ruel, Paris (2) ▪ Auguste Pellerin, Paris (by 1902 until ca. 1910) (3) ▪ Durand-Ruel, Paris; Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Paul Cassirer, Berlin (by 1910) (4) ▪ Baron Ferenc de Hatvany, Budapest (after 1910 until 1948) (5) ▪ Dr. Fritz Nathan, St. Gall (1948) (6) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (8 October 1948 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (7) ▪ Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 63 (1960). (1) Tableaux, etudes, aquarelles, dessins, marbres, bronzes offerts en partie par les artistes […], Préface d'Emile Zola, (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (14 May 1881), no. 22, sold for FF 65, Rouart/Wildenstein no. 258. (2) Rouart/Wildenstein no. 258. (3) Trente-cinq tableaux de la Collection Pellerin, (exh. cat.) Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 1910, no. 9; Edouard Manet, Aus der Sammlung Pellerin, (exh. cat.) Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Munich 1910, no. 20. (4) Rouart/Wildenstein no. 258. (5) László Mravik, "Báró Hatvany Ferenc műgyűjteményének története [The History of Baron Ferenc Hatvany's Art Collection]", in László Horváth (ed.), Hatvanyak emlékezete [The Memory of the Hatvanys], Hatvan 2003, p. 158 (n. 49)–159 (ill.), 241, 243, 267 (ill., the picture hanging at the wall in the drawing room of the Hatvany residence, ca. 1930). (6) Acquired from the above for CHF 29.000, Anja Heuss, "Verstreut nach Ost und West, Die drei Geschichten der Hatvany-Sammlung", in Osteuropa (56) 2006, pp. 89 (ill.), 85. The transaction with the interference of the art historian Simon Meller and the acquisition price is corroborated by the account of the events given by Eugène Gerlőtei, "L'ancienne collection François de Hatvany", in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (May/June) 1966, p. 369. (7) Acquired from the above, AStEGB Entry Book I, 8 October 1948, identifying Prof. Dr. Simon Meller, Baden, as the consignor, Inventory Card Manet, Suicidé, identifying Dr. Fritz Nathan, St. Gall, as the seller.

Exhibitions Trente-cinq tableaux de la Collection Pellerin, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 1910, no. 9. ▪ Edouard Manet (Sammlung Pellerin-Paris), Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1910, no. 20. ▪ Edouard Manet, Aus der Sammlung Pellerin, Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Munich 1910, no. 20. ▪ Kőztulajdonba vett műkincsek első kiállítása (Première exposition des trésors d'art nationalisés), Budapest 1919, no. V/14. ▪ Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1938, no. 150. ▪ La peinture française au XIXe siècle, Musée du Prince Paul, Belgrade 1939, no. 76. ▪ Francia művészeti alkotások kiállítása magyar magántulajdonból (Exposition d'art français des collections privées de Hongrie), Gróf Almásy-Teleki Éva Művészeti Intézete (Countess Éva Almásy-Teleki Institute of Art), Budapest 1940, no. 144. ▪ Œuvres choisies du XIXe siècle, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris 1950, no. 21. ▪ Europäische Kunst 13.–20. Jahrhundert aus Zürcher Sammlungen, Kunsthaus Zurich 1950 (not in catalogue). ▪ Werke der französischen Malerei und Grafik des 19. Jahrhunderts aus Privat- und Museumsbesitz, Museum Folkwang (Villa Hügel), Essen 1954, no. 61. ▪ 50 Jahre Kunsthandelsverband der Schweiz, Jubiläumsausstellung mit Werken des 15.–20. Jahrhunderts aus öffentlichem und privatem Besitz, Kunsthaus Zurich 1973, no. 40. ▪ Edouard Manet, Augenblicke der Geschichte, Kunsthalle Mannheim 1992–93, no. 5. ▪ Edouard Manet und die Impressionisten, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 2002–03, no. 47. ▪ Manet, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome 2005–06, no. 105. ▪ Six Feet Under, Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten, Kunstmuseum Bern 2006–07, p. 157. ▪ Manet et le Paris moderne, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo 2010, no. III-63. References Théodore Duret, Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son œuvre, Avec un catalogue des peintures et des pastels, Paris 1902, no. 215 (21909, 31919, 41926; German edition: Edouard Manet, Sein Leben und

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seine Kunst, Berlin 1910; English edition: Manet and the French Impressionists, London & Philadelphia 1910; 22009). ▪ Julius Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet, Munich 1912, fig. 153. ▪ Gino Severini, Manet, Rome 1924, fig. 32. ▪ Adolphe Tabarant, Manet, Histoire catalographique, Paris 1931, no. 353. ▪ Paul Jamot, Georges Wildenstein, Manet, Paris 1932, vol. 1, no. 271; vol. 2, fig. 332. ▪ Paul Colin, Edouard Manet, Paris 1932, fig. 91. ▪ István Genthon, "Báró Hatvany Ferenc modern képgűjteménye [Baron Ferenc Hatvany's Collection of Modern Pictures]", in Magyar Művészet (11) 1935, pp. 14 (ill.), 23. ▪ Robert Rey, Manet, Paris 1938, fig. 109. ▪ Gotthard Jedlicka, Edouard Manet, Erlenbach/Zurich 1941, pp. 192, 194 (ill.). ▪ Michel Florisoone, Manet, Monaco 1947, p. 69 (ill.). ▪ Benno Reifenberg, Manet, Berne 1947, fig. 30. ▪ Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris 1947, pp. 411–412, fig. 379. ▪ Maurice Bex, Manet, Paris 1948, p. 27, fig. 103. ▪ Germain Bazin, L'époque impressionniste, Paris 1953, p. 56 (ill.). ▪ Georges Bataille, Manet, Lausanne 1955, pp. 55– 56 (2Geneva 1988, pp. 6, 50, 104). ▪ Raymond Cogniat, Le siècle des impressionnistes, Paris 1959 (German edition: Das Jahrhundert der Impressionisten, Milan 1959, p. 79 [ill.]; English edition: The Century of the Impressionists, London & New York 1960; 2New York 1967; 31978). ▪ Pierre Courthion, Ed. Manet, Cologne 1962, p. 32, fig. 42. ▪ Eugène Gerlőtei, "L'ancienne collection François de Hatvany", in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (May/June) 1966, pp. 362, 364, 369, 371, fig. 10. ▪ Sandra Orienti, Marcello Venturi, L'opera pittorica di Edouard Manet, Milan 1967, no. 344 (ill.; English edition: Sandra Orienti, Phoebe Pool, The Complete Paintings of Manet, New York 1967; German edition: Das gemalte Werk von Edouard Manet, Lucerne etc. 1967; French edition: Denis Rouart, Sandra Orienti, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Edouard Manet, Paris 1970, no. 348 [illl.]). ▪ Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922–1972, Zurich 1972, no. 64 (ill.). ▪ Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne & Paris 1975, vol. 1, Peintures, no. 258 (ill.). ▪ George Mauner, Manet, Peintre-Philosophe, A Study of the Painter's Themes, University Park (Pennsylvania) & London 1975, pp. 111, 142–143, fig. 87. ▪ Sophie Monneret, L'Impressionnisme et son époque, Dictionnaire international illustré, vol. 1, Paris 1978, p. 100. ▪ Theodore Reff, "Manet and the Paris of Haussmann and Baudelaire", in Manet and Modern Paris, Chicago & London 1982, p. 27, fig. 14. ▪ Alena Marchwinski, "The Romantic Suicide and the Artists", in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (109) 1987, pp. 73–74, fig. 5. ▪ Oskar Bätschmann, Ausstellungskünstler, Kult und Karriere im modernen Kunstsystem, Cologne 1997, p. 104, fig. 66. ▪ Eric Darragon, Manet, Paris 1991, p.319, fig. 225. ▪ László Mravik, The "Sacco di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary 1938–1949, Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War […], Preliminary and Provisional Catalogue, Budapest 1998, no. 16854. ▪ Ulrike Ilg, "Painted Theory of Art: Le suicidé (1877) by Édouard Manet and the Disappearance of Narration", in Artibus et Historiae, An Art Anthology (45) 2002, pp. 179–190, fig. 1. ▪ László Mravik, "Báró Hatvany Ferenc műgyűjteményének története (The History of Baron Ferenc Hatvany's Art Collection", in László Horváth (ed.), Hatvanyak emlékezete [The Memory of the Hatvanys], Hatvan 2003, p. 158 (n. 49)–159 (ill.), 241, 243, 267 (ill. the picture hanging at the wall in the drawing room of the Hatvany residence, ca. 1930). ▪ Theodore Reff, Manet's Incident in a Bullfight, New York 2005, p. 34, fig. 37. ▪ Thierry Savatier, L'Origine du monde, Paris 2006, p. 145. ▪ Anja Heuss, "Verstreut nach Ost und West, Die drei Geschichten der HatvanySammlung", in Osteuropa (56) 2006, pp. 89 (ill.), 95. ▪ James H. Rubin, Manet Initial M, Hand and Eye, Paris 2011, pp. 356–356, no. 168 (ill.; French edition: Manet, Initiale M, L'œil, une main). ▪ Ingebørg Ydstie, "Akten som felt for ny symboldannelse, Den tapte 1886-versjonen av Munchs motiv for Pubertet / The Nude as Arena for a New Symbolism, The Lost 1886 Version of Munch's Puberty", in Edvard Munch, Pubertet / Puberty, (exh. cat.) Munch Museum, Oslo 2012, pp. 27–28, fig. 19. ▪ Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Bernhard Echte, Walter Feilchenfeldt (ed.), vol. 4, Die Ausstellungen 1908– 1910, Wädenswil 2013, pp. 418–419 (ill.), 439. ▪ Bruno Chenique, "Géricault, Manet, ou le syndrome de Chatterton", in Alfred de Vigny et le romantisme, Isabelle Haubout (ed.), Paris 2016, pp. 175– 198. Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 63; 1973/86, no. 33; 1994/95, pp. 41–42 (ill.); 2004/05: no. 74. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 1958, no. 150; Berlin 1958, no. 15; Munich 1958–59, no. 99; Edinburgh 1961, no. 17; London 1961, no. 17; Washington D.C. etc. 1990–91, no. 27; Zurich 2010, no. 63. ▪ Articles on the Bührle Collection: Wild 1953, p. 27; Wehrli 1963, p. 219.

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