Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
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Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)

Tête d'enfant

細節
Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Tête d'enfant
signed 'van Dongen' (lower right); signed and inscribed 'van Dongen 75 rue de Courcelles Paris 8' (on the reverse)
oil on board
161/8 x 13in. (41 x 33cm.)
Painted in 1948
展覽
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen - Oeuvres de 1890 à 1948, 1949, no. 175 (as Jeune fille).
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拍品專文

The Wildenstein Institute will include this painting in their forthcoming Van Dongen catalogue raisonné.

The present work was included in the major van Dongen retrospective staged at the Galerie Charpentier in early 1949. The show included around two hundred pictures and was the most complete exploration of van Dongen's art hitherto staged, charting his development from Fauve enfant terrible to society favourite. The show was so well received that it later transferred, in a reduced format, to the Musée Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Although titled Jeune fille when exhibited in 1949, the blond, curly-haired child depicted in the present work strongly resembles the the artist's son by his second marriage, Jean-Marie, born in 1940.