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Property from an Important Private Collection

Kees van Dongen

Le Nil à Assouan

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

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.

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)