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KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)

Lot 489
03.03.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 908308
Lot 489 | KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)

Un Carrousel (Place Pigalle, Le manège de cochons)

signed with initials 'V.D.' (lower right)

oil on canvas

18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (46 x 55 cm.)

Painted circa 1904-1905





Provenance

Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, by whom acquired circa 1910-1911; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-18 November 1921, lot 219.

Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 December 1925, lot 59.

Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 December 1933, lot 149.

Georges Viau, Paris.

Paul Pétridès, Paris.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 1980, lot 213.

Fridart Foundation, London.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1988, lot 125.

Private collection, Switzerland.

Acquired form the above by the present owner in 2012.



Literature

A.v.V. "Rotterdamsche Kunstkring. Kees van Dongen" in Algemeen Handelsblad, 13 June 1906.

"Kees van Dongen", Provinciale Overijsselsche en Zwolsche Courant, 26 June 1906.

L. Chaumeil, Van Dongen, L'homme et l'artiste - La vie et l'œuvre, Geneva, 1967, no. 40, p. 317 (illustrated; titled 'Manège de cochons' and dated '1904').

A. Hopmans, The Van Dongen Nobody Knows. Early and Fauvist Drawings 1895-1912, exh. cat., Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 1996, no. 48, pp. 63-65 (illustrated; titled 'Le manège de cochons (The merry-go-round of pigs)' and dated '1905').

N. Neumann, ed., Van Dongen et le Bateau-Lavoir, exh. cat., Musée de Montmarte, Paris, 2018, no. 4, pp. 18 & 19 (illustrated fig. 4, p. 19; titled 'Manège de cochons' and dated 'circa 1905').



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Druet, Kees Van Dongen. Une saison, October - November 1905 (exhibited hors catalogue).

(Possibly) Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Schilder-en teekenwerk van Kees van Dongen (Parijs), May - June 1906, no. 57, p. 6 (dated '1905'); this exhibition later travelled to Zwolle, Sociëteit De Harmonie.

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen, Œuvres de 1890 à 1948, 1948, no. 27 (titled 'Le Carroussel - Place Pigalle' and dated '1901' and with inverted dimensions).

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Kees Van Dongen, Werken van 1894 tot 1949, May - July 1949, no. 15 (titled 'Le Carrousel. Place Pigalle' and dated '1901' and with inverted dimensions).

Southampton, Southampton Art Gallery, Sounds of Colour, July - September 1982, no. 28 (titled 'Carrousel place Pigalle, (Merry-go-round in the Place Pigalle)' and dated 'circa 1905'); this exhibition later travelled to Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, 1983.

St. Tropez, Musée de l'Annonciade, Kees Van Dongen, July - September 1985, no. 4 (illustrated; titled ‘Carrousel de cochons, Place Pigalle’); this exhibition later travelled to Toulouse, Réfectoire des Jacobins, October - November 1985.

Monaco, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Kees van Dongen, June - September 2008, no. 65, p. 331 (illustrated fig. 10, p. 114; titled 'Carrousel, place Pigalle' and dated '1905'); this exhibition later travelled to Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, January - April 2009; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, May - August 2009.

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, All Eyes on Kees van Dongen, September 2010 - January 2011, no. 31, pp. 182-183 (illustrated p. 69; titled 'Manège de cochons' dated '1905'); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Van Dongen, Fauve, anarchiste, et mondain, March - July 2011, no. 36, p. 212 (illustrated p. 78).



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Post lot text

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, Oil on canvas, Painted
Medium:Canvas, Textile
Art style:Abstract art, Impressionism, Modern art
Genre:Cityscape
Auction house category:Paintings
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