L'abandon

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Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968)
L'abandon
Inscribed 'elle allait chercher son ancien amant il l'a (sic) donné cent sous et dit, va t'en.' (lower right)
brush with black ink, chalk and watercolour on grey-green paper
23½ x 19 7/8 in. (59.6 x 50.6 cm.)
Executed in 1901

Provenance

Anon. sale, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, 6 Dec. 1970, lot 51.
Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1971.

Literature

J. M. Kyriazi, Van Dongen et le fauvisme, Lausanne and Paris 1971, fig. 17.

Exhibited

Lausanne, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Hommage à Van Dongen, Sept 1971, no. 18.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Van Dongen, le peintre 1877-1968, Mar-June 1990 (illustrated p. 234).
Rotterdam, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, The Van Dongen Nobody Knows, Early and Fauvist Drawings 1895-1912, Nov 1996-Jan 1997, no. 42, (p. 130, illustrated p. 136). 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 01.04.02.7892.1582 and dated Fait à Paris le 3 avril 2001, stating that the present work is to be included in their forthcoming Kees van Dongen catalogue raisonné.

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