Lot 209
  • 209

Kees van Dongen

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Kees van Dongen
  • Lilas
  • signed van Dongen (lower right); signed van Dongen, titled and inscribed Madame Jenny Sacerdote, 5, Rue Juliette Lamber, Paris XVII on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 100.7 by 80.8cm., 39 5/8 by 31 3/4 in.

Provenance

Jeanne Adèle Bernard also known as Jenny Sacerdote (possibly)
Galerie Pétridès, Paris
Private Collection (sale: Christie's, London, 29th November 1988, lot 249)
Galerie Nichido, Japan
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989

Exhibited

Tokyo, Shizuoka Art Gallery & Yamagata, Sakata City Museum, De l'Impressionnisme à l'École de Paris, 2001-02
Ibaraki, Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Foujita in Montparnasse and His Surroundings, 2008
Tokyo, Galerie Nichido, Utrillo and Painters of École de Paris, 2011

Condition

The canvas is not lined. UV examination reveals some retouchings along the lower and upper edges due to previous frame rubbing and lines of infill towards the centre of the right edge associated to craquelure. There are some further scattered lines and spots of retouching mainly away from the central flowers. There are fine lines of craquelure throughout the composition and some associated spots of paint loss. There is a rich thick impasto and this work is in overall fairly good condition.
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