Property from a Private Collection, North America
Kees van Dongen
Fatimah Ismaël de Louxor
Auction Closed
May 17, 12:56 AM GMT
Estimate
3,500,000 - 4,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, North America
Kees van Dongen
1877 - 1968
Fatimah Ismaël de Louxor
signed Van Dongen (upper right)
oil on canvas
21 ⅞ by 18 ¼ in. 55.4 by 46.3 cm.
Executed in 1913.
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.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1913)
Galerie A. Urban, Paris
Private Collection, Europe
Sotheby’s, London, 1 December 1987, lot 27 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby’s, New York, 14 November 2016, lot 7 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Hommage à Van Dongen, 1969, no. 25, n.p., illustrated (titled Fatima and dated 1908)
Lausanne, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Hommage à Van Dongen, 1971, no. 6
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Kees Van Dongen, 1989-90, no. 40, n.p., illustrated in color (dated 1908)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Fauvism—Wild Beasts, 1996, illustrated in color
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Kees Van Dongen, 2002, no. 50, p. 95, illustrated in color
Louis Chaumeil, Van Dongen, L'Homme et l'Artiste—La Vie et l'Oeuvre, Geneva, 1967, pl. XXII, illustrated in color (dated circa 1908)
Jean Melas-Kyriazi, Van Dongen et le Fauvisme, Lausanne and Paris, 1971, no. 54, p. 128, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, All Eyes onKees van Dongen, 2010, p. 103; p. 104, illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio
Stephen Sheehi, "Modernism, Anxiety and the Ideology of Arab Vision," Discourse, vol. 28, no. 1, Winter 2006, p. 96
