Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale
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Property from a Private Collection, Europe
Kees van Dongen
La Tour Eiffel
Lot Closed
June 30, 12:13 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Europe
Kees van Dongen
1877 - 1968
La Tour Eiffel
signed Van Dongen (lower left); signed Kees van Dongen and titled on the stretcher
oil on canvas
46 by 55cm., 18⅛ by 21⅝ in.
Framed: 65.5 by 74.5cm., 25¾ by 29⅜ in.
Painted in 1904.
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.
Private Collection, France (sold: Sotheby's, London, 2nd December 1987, lot 176)
Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Anita Hopmans, "1895-1908: Le 'Kropotkine' du Bateau-Lavoir", in Van Dongen: Fauve, anarchiste et mondain (exhibition catalogue), Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2011, illustrated in colour p. 26