Kees van Dongen

Private Collection, Europe
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 11, 1999, lot 286
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Ambroise Vollard, Exposition Kees van Dongen, 1904, no. 103
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen, 50 ans de peinture, 1942, no. 15
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Exposition du Paysage Français de Corot à nos jours, 1942

Canvas is not lined but there is a thin web of stable craquelure throughout the canvas as well as a faint vertical stretcher bar mark in the center. There's some visible rubbing to the extreme edges. Under UV light: strokes and dots of uneven varnish fluoresce throughout. There are 2 pin dots of inpainting at the bottom half of the left edge as well as a few small strokes along the upper edge. A few pin dot retouches at the center of right edge and one centimeter stroke of inpainting four inches above the signature. Otherwise fine, the work is in good condition.
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