Cocotte

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Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Cocotte
signed and dated 'van Dongen. 1901' (lower right); inscribed 'La voie des parents - regarde pas ca c'est qu'une cocotte. on n'a pas....' [sic] (lower left)
pen and brush with black ink, watercolour and chalk on cream paper
25 3/8 x 19 3/8in. (64.5 x 49.2cm.)
Executed in 1901

Provenance

Anon. sale, Hotel Rameau, Versailles 14 March 1971, Lot 52.
Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1971.

Literature

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

Exhibited

Lausanne, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Hommage à Van Dongen, Sept 1971, no. 23.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Van Dongen, le peintre 1877-1968, March-June 1990 (illustrated p. 235).
Rotterdam, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, The Van Dongen Nobody Knows, Early and Fauvist Drawings, Nov 1996-Jan 1997, no. 52 (p. 131, illustrated p. 143). This exhibition later travelled to Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Institut Néerlandais.

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Lot Essay

Sold with a photo-certificate from the Wildenstein Institute, numbered 01.04.02.7890.15861 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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