PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE FRENCH COLLECTION
Kees van Dongen
PRUNUS
LOT SOLD.
125,000 EUR
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Art Impressionniste et Moderne
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Kees van Dongen
1877 - 1968
PRUNUS
signed van Dongen (lower right); signed van Dongen, inscribed 5, rue Juliette Lamber and titled Prunus (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 15 in.
Painted circa 1922-32.
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oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 15 in.
Painted circa 1922-32.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by Jacques Chalom des Cordes under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.
Provenance
Victor Hélin, Châteauroux
Thence by descent to the present owner
Thence by descent to the present owner
Catalogue Note
The period when Van Dongen lived, worked, exhibited and received guests in the private mansion on the rue Juliette Lamber (1922- 1932) was one of the artist’s most auspicious periods. Interspersed with trips to Cannes and Deauville, before the trip to Egypt in 1928, the period witnessed the blossoming of the portraits of elegant woman who hurried to the parties on the rue Lamber, among the most popular in the capital. The white pearls, fabrics, furs and swan feathers sparkle. The silhouettes are slender. On the high walls, Van Dongen satisfied his passion for decorative compositions. A certain refinement, in contrast to the brash exoticism of this period, is at play in a painting of such grace and audacity as Prunus.
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