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KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)

Lot 51
09.11.2023 18:30UTC -05:00
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$ 2 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1064379
Lot 51 | KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)

Moi et la femme

oil on canvas

50 3⁄8 x 76 7⁄8 in. (130.6 x 195.5 cm.)

Painted circa 1917





Provenance

Augusta (Dolly) van Dongen, Paris (daughter of the artist).

Jacqueline Boucher, Le Havre (by descent from the above, circa 1987).

Ellen Melas Kyriazi, Lausanne (acquired from the above, 15 October 1987).

Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 March 1988, lot 67.

Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 1988, lot 27.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

(possibly) W.F.A. Röell, "Een bezoek bij van Dongen: Eigen Brief" in Het Vaderland: staaten letterkundig nieuwsblad, no. 8, 9 January 1920, p. 2.

G. Diehl, Van Dongen, New York, 1969, p. 58 (illustrated in color).

J.M. Kyriazi, Van Dongen après le Fauvisme, Lausanne, 1976, p. 24 (illustrated in color).

N. Bondil and J.-M. Bouhours, eds., Kees Van Dongen, exh. cat., Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Paris, 2008, p. 46 (illustrated in color, fig. 1).

A. Hopmans, ed., All Eyes on Kees van Dongen, exh. cat., Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2010, p. 145 (illustrated in color).

A. Hopmans, ed., Van Dongen: Fauve, anarchiste et mondain, exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2011, pp. 164 and 177 (illustrated in color, p. 165).



Exhibited

Marseille, Musée Cantini, Hommage à Van Dongen, June-September 1969, no. 55 (illustrated).

Tucson, The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Kansas City, The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Cornelis Theodorus Marie van Dongen, February-June 1971, pp. 76 and 186, no. 80 (illustrated in color, p. 76).

Nagoya, Oriental Nakamura; Tokyo, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi; Osaka, Mitsukoshi; Hakodate, Boni Moriya and Sendai, Mitsukoshi, La Ruche: L'Ecole de Paris à Montparnasse: 1910-1930, August-November 1978, no. 85 (illustrated).

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Ruche et Montparnasse, December 1978-April 1979, no. 133 (dated 1914).

Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris-Moscou: 1900-1930, arts plastiques, arts appliqués et objets utilitaires, architecture-urbanisme, agitprop, affiche, théâtre-ballet, littérature, musique, cinéma, photo créative, May-November 1979, p. 528.

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Salon d'Automne: La grande aventure de Montparnasse, 1912-1932, November 1986, p. 15, no. 39 (illustrated in color).



Further Details

This work will be included in the forthcoming Van Dongen digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Artist:Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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