Émile Bernard

Vasella Collection, Zurich (acquired directly from the artist)

Tino Alfredo Vasella, Zurich (acquired by descent from the above)

Samuel Josefowitz, Switzerland (acquired in September 1986)

Christie’s, Paris, 2 December 2008, lot 14 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Jean-Jacques Luthi, Émile Bernard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1982, no. 145, pp. 28-29, illustrated (titled Cabaret à Paris and dated 1888)

Tokyo, Sunshine Museum; Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Arts and Fukuoka Art Museum, Ukiyo-e Prints and the Impressionist Painters: Meeting of the East and the West, 1979-80, no. I-96, pp. 147 and 195, illustrated

Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Émile Bernard 1868-1941, A Pioneer of Modern Art, 1990, no. 39, pp. 171-72, illustrated in color (titled Le Café-cabaret and dated 1889)

Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Mie, Prefectural Art Museum and Koriyama City Museum of Art, Gauguin et l'École de Pont-Aven, 1993, no. 33, p. 54, illustrated in color (titled Le Tabarin, Café-cabaret, Paris and dated 1889)

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School, 1994, no. 34, p. 64, illustrated in color

Indianapolis Museum of Art; Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens; San Diego Museum of Art; Portland Museum of Fine Arts; Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, 1994-97, no. 34, p. 66, illustrated in color (titled Le Tabarin, Café-Cabaret, Paris and dated 1889)

Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe Stadtmuseum, Symbolism and Art Nouveau in France, 2000, no. 18, p. 40 (titled Le Tabarin, Café-cabaret, Paris and dated 1889)

Saint Louis Art Museum and Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard, 2001, p. 62, illustrated in color (titled Au Cabaret and dated 1889)