Lot 207
  • 207

KEES VAN DONGEN | Portrait de femme

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400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description

  • Kees van Dongen
  • Portrait de femme
  • Signed Van Dongen (toward lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 31 7/8 by 23 3/4 in.
  • 81 by 60.3 cm
  • Painted circa 1919.

Provenance

The Drs. Bakwin, New York (acquired from the artist in 1927)
Thence by descent 

Exhibited

New York, Galerie Tamenaga, Exposition Kees Van Dongen, 1990, no. 13, illustrated in color in the catalogue (dated circa 1926)

Literature

Gregory Selch, ed., The Bakwin Collection, Paintings and Sculpture, 1925-1970, Collected by Drs. Ruth & Harry Bakwin, New York, 2004, illustrated in color n.p. 
Kees van Dongen (exhibition catalogue), Monaco, Nouveau Musée National; Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts & Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2008-09, illustrated in situ no. 70

Condition

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Catalogue Note

"All women have their beauty and charm which I glorify...big eyes...long eyelashes, satin-smooth or matte skin...pearls and brilliants... And the shimmer of satins and velvets, the softness and warmth of furs. You have to want to touch a painting, for it to be a pleasure for all the senses. A painting must be something which is exciting and glorifies life... the joy of our time is that you can mix everything, blend everything, blend everything: it is really the age of the cocktail."
—Kees van Dongen, quoted in All Eyes on Van Dongen (exhibition catalogue), Museum Bojmans, Rotterdam, 2011, p. 152

This work will be included in the forthcoming van Dongen Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.