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KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)

Lot 61
19.11.2024 16:00UTC -05:00
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$ 4 000 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1336268
Lot 61 | KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)
Portrait de Madame Malpel
signed 'van Dongen' (lower right)
oil on canvas
67 1/8 x 33 ½ in. (170.4 x 85.1 cm.)
Painted in 1908




Provenance

Charles and Marie Malpel, Paris (acquired from the artist, circa 1908, until 1966).
Galerie Jean-Paul Wick, Paris (circa 1967).
Anon. sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 25 February 1970, lot 30.
Charles Tabachnick, Toronto; sale, Christie's, New York, 3 November 1981, lot 12.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.



Literature

(possibly) L. Chaumeil, Van Dongen: L'homme et l'artiste, la vie et l'œuvre, Geneva, 1967, p. 273.
G. Diehl, Van Dongen, New York, 1969, p. 20 (illustrated in color; dated 1909).
J.M. Kyriazi, Van Dongen et le Fauvisme, Lausanne, 1971, p. 141 (illustrated with the artist in situ in his studio).
S. Pagé, ed., Van Dongen: Le Peintre, exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1990, p. 225 (detail illustrated with the artist in situ in his studio).
M. Vallès-Bled, Van Dongen: Du Nord et du Sud, exh. cat., Musée de Lodève, 2004, p. 34 (detail illustrated with the artist in situ in his studio).
N. Bondil and J.-M. Bouhours, Van Dongen, exh. cat., Nouveau musée national de Monaco, 2008, p. 178 (illustrated in color, fig. 36; detail illustrated with the artist in situ in his studio, pl. 60; dated circa 1908-1909).



Exhibited

(possibly) Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Van Dongen, November-December 1908, no. 62 (titled Portrait de Madame C.M.).
Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Dongen, April 1960, p. 31, no. 17 (dated circa 1904).
Montauban, Musée Ingres, L'art contemporain dans les collections du Quercy, July-September 1966, p. 18, no. 80 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne and Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Van Dongen, October 1967-January 1968, no. 62 (illustrated; dated 1909).
Tucson, The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Kansas City, Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Art, Cornelius Theodorus Marie Van Dongen, February-March 1971, p. 184, no. 67 (illustrated in color, p. 68 and on the front cover; illustrated with the artist in situ in his studio, pp. 32-33; with incorrect dimensions).
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass, March-May 2015, p. 14, no. 6 (illustrated in color, p. 15; dated circa 1908).



Further Details

This work will be included in the forthcoming Kees van Dongen digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Artist:Jean Metzinger (1883 - 1956)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Cubism, Modern art
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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