Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection
Kees van Dongen
On the Nile
Auction Closed
March 5, 04:45 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection
Kees van Dongen
1877 - 1968
On the Nile
signed Van Dongen (lower right); signed VAN DONGEN, signed again with the artist's initials E. V D. and titled (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
65 by 54.4 cm. 25⅝ by 21⅜ in.
Framed: 83.5 by 72.5 cm. 32⅞ by 28⅝ in.
Executed circa 1929.
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.
Matasaku Shiobara, Tokyo (acquired by 1929)
Private Collection, Japan (acquired by descent circa 1955 and until at least 1998)
Christie's, London, 7 December 1999, lot 186
Noortman, Maastricht (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owners
Osaka, Asahi Shinbunsha, Exposition d'art français contemporain, 1929, n.n., p. 59, illustrated
Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Captivated by Western Art: Fifteen Japanese Art Collectors, 1890-1940, 1997–98, no. SM-7, n.p., illustrated
Maastricht, Noortman Gallery, Old Masters, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Paintings, 2000, n.p., illustrated in colour (titled Bateaux sur le Nile)
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