Property from a Private Collection
Kees van Dongen
Les Courses or Blue Grass Races
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Kees van Dongen
1877 - 1968
Les Courses or Blue Grass Races
signed van Dongen. (lower left)
oil on canvas
37.9 by 54.6 cm. 14 ⅞ by 21 ⅝ in.
Framed: 55.5 by 72.1 cm. 21 ⅞ by 28 ⅜ in.
Executed circa 1950s.
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.
Iris and Dr Max Stern, Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the artist)
Christie's, London, 10 December 1997, lot 200 (consigned by the above)
Lara Wijsmuller Fine Art, Amsterdam
Sotheby's, New York, 4 May 2006, lot 457 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired by descent from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 2015, lot 187
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Edmonton, Edmonton Art Gallery (on loan 1969-71)
Tucson, University of Arizona Museum of Art and Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Cornelis Theodorus Marie van Dongen, 1877-1968, 1971, no. 18, illustrated (titled Blue Grass Races)