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CamilleBombois
PontdelaChausséeàMontargis,c.1944
Oiloncanvas,46x65cm
onrecto,lowerleft,signed:“Bombois.C.Me”
onverso,frame,lowerleft,handwrittenlabel:“(…)635x445/M(…)Petiten9½,/(…)orfindica…”;
lowerright,inscribedinpencil:“1”
onstretcher,upperleft,inscribedinpencil:“(PontdelaChaussée)(àMontargis)”;inblack:“22446”;
upperright,inred:“D.G.”;farright,inblack:“70.M.[?]””;lowerleft,inred:“D.3266”;lowerright,in
blue:“X”;inred:“X”;onverticalstretcher,attop,inpencil:“1”;inwhite:“DG8”;atcentre,inwhite:
“65x45”;below,inwhite:“5Kos”
oncanvas,inscribedinred:“No.3”
Provenance:
By28April1944:withRaphaëlGérard,Paris(perCorneliusGurlittPapers)
BySeptember1953:HildebrandGurlitt,Dusseldorf(perCorneliusGurlittPapers)
BydescenttoCorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
Exhibition:
ExpositionCamilleBombois.GalerieO.Pétridès,Paris,28January–12February1944.[no.3,ill.]
Primarysources:
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereference:
20March1947[vol.6,fol.58]
CorneliusGurlittPapers,Salzburg:
Photographs,no.17.1_F1701[n.d.]
ListRaphaëlGérard,referenceno.inprocess,28April1944,[itemno.1]
ListofartworkswithRaphaëlGérard,referenceno.inprocess,[c.September1953],[itemno.1]
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV(Part2)/081
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Furthersourcesconsulted(selected):
Hans F. Secker. “Camille Bombois–Paris,” pp. 136–144. In: Deutsche Kunst- und Dekoration, vol.
34,no.7(April1931).
Tableauxmodernes,aquarelles,pastels.Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,19February1932.
Tableauxmodernes,aquarelles,pastels.Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,3May1935.
Tableaux anciens et modernes, gravures, aquarelles, gouaches, par ou attribués à Augustin,
Bando,Bailly,Bombois[...].Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,18June1941.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. Speiser: Modern art, paintings and sculptures. Auct. cat.,
Parke-BernetGalleries,NewYork,26–27January1944.
Uhde, Wilhelm. Fünf Primitive Meister: Rousseau, Vivin, Bombois, Bauchat, Seraphine. Zurich:
Atlantis,1947.
Crnković, Vladimir, Eva Karcher, Dorothee Messmer and Hans F. Secker. Camille Bombois.
Bönnigheim:Wachter,1999.
ArchivesdeParis
ArchivesDurand-Ruel
BibliothèqueKandinsky,Paris
BNFRichelieu–Estampesetphotographie
BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt
CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”
Database“EntarteteKunst”
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
LostArt
RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
WittLibrary
Note:
AbridgereflectedinwaterbelowisarecurrentmotifinBombois’œuvre.
Theinscription“No.3”onthecanvasversoreferstotheBomboisexhibitionmountedbyGalerie
Pétridès in 1944. According to the exhibition catalogue, the show featured the artist’s recent
works.Althoughthepaintingdoesnotappeartobedated,wemayassumethatitwasexecuted
intheimmediateperiodpriortoJanuary1944.
This work was one of over 70 works with the art dealer Raphaël Gérard in Paris in 1944. It is
unclearwhetheratthetimeGérardand/orGurlittownedorco-ownedtheseworks,whetherthey
hadbeenplacedoncommission,orindeedsimplydepositedwithGérard.Itisconspicuousthatan
inventory of works with Gérard was drawn up in the very late stages of the war; one possible
hypothesis is that Gurlitt placed for safekeeping with Gérard works that he had acquired in
occupiedParis,withtheintentionofmovingtheseobjectsatalaterdate.
In1953,someoftheseworkswereshippedtoGurlittinDusseldorf,whileothersremainedwith
Gérard until 1957 (at Gurlitt’s cost). The inscription “1” on verso refers to two inventories of
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artworkswithGérard,onedated28April1944,theotherdatingfromaboutSeptember1953.This
workisrespectivelyreferredtohereinas“Bombois,LePont”(1944)and“Bombois,DieBrücke”
(1953).
ThepersonalpapersfoundinCorneliusGurlitt’sSalzburghomeincludeacollectionofabout2,400
photographsofartworks.Photographno.17.1_F1701isareproductionofthiswork.
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