Kees van Dongen

Exhibited by GALERIE ALEXIS PENTCHEFF

Material Oil on canvas, signed lower left and t 72,7 itled on the reverse: “Parisiennes.”

Dimensions 72.7 × 49.8 cm

Price Available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

Certificate of inclusion in the artist’s digital catalogue raisonné, issued by the Digital Catalogue Raisonné Project under the auspices of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.

Provenance

Kees van Dongen, until at least 1959
Sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 12 June 1964, no. 61
Galerie Paul Pétridès, Paris
Collection Jean Melas-Kyriazi, Lausanne
Private collection, United States
Sale, Christie’s, London, 24 June 2008, no. 29
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)

Literature

Exhibitions
Van Dongen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 18 December 1937 – 9 January 1938, no. 85.
Van Dongen, 1877–1937, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 5 February – 2 March 1938; illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 7, no. 54.
Van Dongen, Galerie Borghèse, Paris, October–November 1938, no. 7 (under the title Au bois de Boulogne (Le Sentier de la Vertu)).
Van Dongen, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, November–December 1942, no. 45.
Paris et ses peintres, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1944–45 (exhibition label on the reverse).
Kees van Dongen, Genootschap Kunstliefde, Utrecht, 7–28 August 1949, no. 8.
Europa 1907, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 6 July – 30 September 1957, no. 25.
Van Dongen, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice; illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 25, no. 18.
Van Dongen, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, 13 October – 26 November 1967; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 8 December 1967 – 28 January 1968, no. 61 (ill.).
Hommage à Van Dongen: Peintures et aquarelles fauves, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 9–18 September 1971, no. 5.
Salon d’Automne 1972: Grandes œuvres russes des collections françaises, Van Dongen, Villes nouvelles, 31 October – 27 November 1972; illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 31, no. 12.
Van Dongen: 1877–1968, Musée de l’Athénée, Geneva, 15 July – 15 October 1976, no. 4.

Bibliography
Louis Chaumeil, Van Dongen: l’homme et l’artiste – La vie et l’œuvre, Pierre Cailler Éditeur, Geneva, 1967; illustrated in colour, pl. IX.
Gaston Diehl, Van Dongen, Flammarion, Paris; illustrated in colour, p. 45.
Jean Melas-Kyriazi, Van Dongen et le fauvisme, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Lausanne, 1971, pp. 100, 147; illustrated in colour, p. 97, pl. 39.
Michel Hoog, “Repères pour Van Dongen,” Revue de l’art, no. 12, 1971, p. 93 (fig. 1).