L'automne

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Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968)
L'automne
signed 'Van Dongen' and inscribed in another hand, 'meme pas les ouvriers [sic]' (lower left); inscribed 'mais quand son feu était brulé son automne est venu on ne l'a plus voulu' [sic] (on the reverse)
brush with black ink, watercolour and gouache on cream paper
25 3/8 x 19 3/8 in. (64.3 x 49.2 cm.)
Executed in 1901

Provenance

Anon. sale, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, 14 March 1971, lot 54.
Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1971.

Literature

J. M. Kryiazi, Van Dongen et le fauvisme, Lausanne and Paris 1971, fig. 20.

Exhibited

Lausanne, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Hommage à Van Dongen, September 1971, no. 25.
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. 51, (p. 131, illustrated p. 142). This exhibition later travelled to Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Institut Néerlandais.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Sold with a photo-certificate from the Wildenstein Institute, numbered 01.04.02.7891.1585 and dated Paris le 2 avril 2001, stating that the present work will be included in their forthcoming Kees van Dongen catalogue raisonné.

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