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KEES VAN DONGEN | L'Horloge de la plage de Deauville
估價
700,000 - 900,000 USD
招標截止
描述
- Kees van Dongen
- L'Horloge de la plage de Deauville
- Signed van Dongen. (lower center); inscribed l'Horloge (on the reverse)
- Oil on canvas
- 19 7/8 by 25 7/8 in.
- 50.5 by 65.7 cm
- Painted circa 1955.
來源
Sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 14, 1957, lot 63
Paul Pétridès, Paris
Galerie Samy Chalom, Paris (possibly)
Strong Foundation, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 8, 1994, lot 38)
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 2002, lot 52)
Richard Green Fine Paintings, London (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Europe (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 2010, lot 323)
Acquired at the above sale
Paul Pétridès, Paris
Galerie Samy Chalom, Paris (possibly)
Strong Foundation, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 8, 1994, lot 38)
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 2002, lot 52)
Richard Green Fine Paintings, London (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Europe (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 2010, lot 323)
Acquired at the above sale
展覽
Monaco, Nouveau musée national, Kees van Dongen, 2008-09, no. 225, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Condition
The work is in good condition. The canvas has not been lined. Surface is bright and lively. Under UV light: scattered pindots of inpainting in sky, mostly in left half, as well as a one inch stroke in the orange dress at lower left and two pindots in the green tent at lower right. Otherwise fine.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
拍品資料及來源
"In van Dongen's work we find everything that lives, sparkles and is luxurious," remarked a journalist in 1928 (quoted in All Eyes on van Dongen (exhibition catalogue), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2010-11, p. 155). This statement is not only applicable to scenes of Paris. The fashionable summer resort of Deauville on the Normandy coast, the subject of the present work, attracted many leading artists from the mid-nineteenth through the early-twentieth centuries. Van Dongen's affinity for brilliant color and his swift eye for movement were well suited to the vitality of Deauville's aristocratic vacationers, as they congregated on the beach by the bathing tents or at the nearby racetrack.
In L'Horloge de la plage de Deauville, van Dongen deftly captures the exciting and fashionable summer social scene at Deauville: a place to see and be seen. Van Dongen was at the center of this lively world. The artist first visited Deauville in the summer of 1913, when he stayed with his collector friends the Desjardins. Seduced by the buzz and glamour of the place, he returned almost every year of his life.
In L'Horloge de la plage de Deauville, ominous gray clouds pour in overhead, while bright flags wave triumphantly in the accelerating wind, seeming to signify the beachgoers' resistance to the threatening weather ahead. Van Dongen was apparently just as resolute in his mission to capture this scene. Painting himself in the lower right corner as an inconspicuous figure, he appears preoccupied with representing the activity of the beach as storms loom after the joy of a warm summer afternoon.
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.
In L'Horloge de la plage de Deauville, van Dongen deftly captures the exciting and fashionable summer social scene at Deauville: a place to see and be seen. Van Dongen was at the center of this lively world. The artist first visited Deauville in the summer of 1913, when he stayed with his collector friends the Desjardins. Seduced by the buzz and glamour of the place, he returned almost every year of his life.
In L'Horloge de la plage de Deauville, ominous gray clouds pour in overhead, while bright flags wave triumphantly in the accelerating wind, seeming to signify the beachgoers' resistance to the threatening weather ahead. Van Dongen was apparently just as resolute in his mission to capture this scene. Painting himself in the lower right corner as an inconspicuous figure, he appears preoccupied with representing the activity of the beach as storms loom after the joy of a warm summer afternoon.
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.