Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
La laitière hollandaise
signed 'vDongen' (lower right)
gouache, brush and India ink on board
27 x 22 in. (68.5 x 55.8 cm.)
Painted in 1898
Provenance
William Preston Harrison, Los Angeles.
Main Street Gallery, Chicago.
Hammer Galleries, New York (1962-1965).
Exhibited
Los Angeles Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection of Modern French Art, 1926, p. 59, no. 48 (illustrated).
Chicago, The Art Institute, The Twelfth International Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes, March-May 1932, no. 79. New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, A Comprehensive Exhibition of Paintings 1900 to 1925 by Van Dongen, November-December 1965, no. 1.
Sale room notice
A certificate from the Wildenstein Institute dated Paris, 2 October 2000 accompanies this gouache, which will be included in their forthcoming van Dongen catalogue raisonné.
Please note that this work was executed on paper laid down on board, not as stated in the catalogue.
Please note the correct dimensions for this work are 26¾ x 217/8 in. (68 x 55.5 cm.), not as stated in the catalogue.
Lot Essay
A certificate from the Wildenstein Institute dated Paris, 2 October 2000 accompanies this gouache, which will be including in their forthcoming van Dongen catalogue raisonné.