Lot Essay
Jacques Chalom des Cordes will include this work in the forthcoming van Dongen catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.
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Two Dutchmen
Details
Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Two Dutchmen
signed 'v Dongen' (lower right)
watercolour, wash and charcoal on buff paper
16 1/8 x 10¾in. (41.5 x 27.3cm.)
Executed circa 1902
Two Dutchmen
signed 'v Dongen' (lower right)
watercolour, wash and charcoal on buff paper
16 1/8 x 10¾in. (41.5 x 27.3cm.)
Executed circa 1902
Provenance
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot (C.Robert), Paris, 2 October 1970, lot 36.
P. Monart, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
P. Monart, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, The Van Dongen Nobody Knows. Early and Fauvist Drawings 1895-1912, Nov. 1996-Jan. 1997, (illustrated p. 155). This exhibition later travelled to Lyons, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Jan.- Apr. 1997; Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Apr.- June 1997.
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