Kees van Dongen
Le Nil à Assouan
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Kees van Dongen
1877 - 1968
Le Nil à Assouan
signed van Dongen. (lower left)
oil on canvas
55.1 by 38.5cm., 21¾ by 15⅛in.
Framed: 67 by 50cm., 26⅜ by 19¾in.
Painted in 1928.
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.
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Galerij van Moderne Kunst W.H. Hofstee Deelman, Amsterdam
J. Nienhuys, Amsterdam (acquired by 1937. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 29th April 1964, lot 28)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel W. H. Hofstee Deelman, Werken van Charles Kvapil en Kees van Dongen, 1928
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Van Dongen, 1937-38, no. 50 (titled De Nijl)
Rotterdam, Boijmans van Beuningen, Kees van Dongen: Werken van 1894 tot 1949, 1949, no. 89 (titled De Nijl bij Assuan)
Atlanta, The High Museum of Art (on loan 1987)