La mort

Details

Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968)
La mort
signed 'Van Dongen' (centre right); inscribed 'un grain sur tout le dessin, excepté le parapluie et le banc' (lower edge)
chalk, pen and brush with black ink, grey wash and watercolour on paper
25 3/8 x 19 3/8 in. (64.1 x 49.2 cm.)
Executed in 1901

Provenance

Anon. sale, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, 6 December 1970, Lot 55.
Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1971.

Literature

M. J. Kyriazi, Van Dongen et le fauvisme, Lausanne and Paris 1971, fig. 22.

Exhibited

Lausanne, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Hommage à Van Dongen, September 1971, no. 23.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Van Dongen, le peintre 1877-1968, Mar-June 1990 (illustrated p. 235).
Rotterdam, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, The Van Dongen Nobody Knows, Early and Fauvist Drawings 1895-1912, Nov 1996-Jan 1997, no. 47, (p. 130, illustrated p. 140). This exhibition later travelled to Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Institut Néerlandais.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Sold with a photo-certificate from the Wildenstein Institute, numbered 01.04.02.7893.2301 and dated Paris le 5 avril 2001, stating that the present work will be included in their forthcoming Kees van Dongen catalogue raisonné.

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