Lot 468
  • 468

Kees van Dongen

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Kees van Dongen
  • La femme blonde (Illustration pour la Princesse de Babylone, Voltaire) - rectoUn couple et un chien - verso
  • signed faintly van Dongen (lower right) - recto
    signed van Dongen - verso
  • pencil and coloured crayon on paper - recto
    watercolour, brush and ink - verso
  • 31.3 by 22cm., 12 3/8 by 8 5/8 in.

Provenance

Acquired by the family of the present owners in Cannes in the 1980s

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper and not laid down. There are four strips of paper attached to all four edges of the verso serving as a mount. The right edge is unevenly cut. The sheet is time stained with a few very faint spots of foxing in places. There is a small loss (approx. 3mm long) to the upper left corner and adhesive residue to the centre of the upper and lower edges of the verso from previous framing. This work is in overall good condition.
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