Le mépris

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Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Le mépris
signed with monogram 'VD.' and titled 'Ier fantome. (le mépris)' (lower right); inscribed '(mais) l'amant l'a vite laché [sic] 'y restait la fille avec son enfant.' (lower left)
brush with black ink, watercolour and chalk on grey-green paper
23½ x 18 7/8in. (59.7 x 48cm.)
Executed in 1901

Provenance

Anon. sale, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, 6 Dec. 1970, lot. 53.
Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1971.

Literature

J. M. Kyriazi, Van Dongen et le fauvisme, Lausanne and Paris 1971 (illustrated p. 16).

Exhibited

Lausanne, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Hommage à Van Dongen, Sept. 1971, no. 24.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Van Dongen, le peintre 1877-1968, Mar.-June 1990, no. 3 (illustrated p. 234). Rotterdam, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, The Van Dongen Nobody Knows, Early and Fauvist Drawings 1895-1912, Nov. 1996-Jan. 1997, no. 40, p. 130 (illustrated p. 135). This exhibition later travelled to Lyons, Musée des Beaux Arts and Paris, Institut Néerlandais.

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Lot Essay

Sold with a photo-certificate from the Wildenstein Institute, numbered 01.04.02.7886.1595 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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