Lot Essay
To be included in the forthcoming van Dongen catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute
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Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Chat et Lilas
signed lower left Van Dongen, signed again, dated and inscribed on the reverse Kees Van Dongen 75 Rue de Courcelles, Paris, France, Venise, No. 17 Lilas, oil on canvas
51½ x 38 3/8in. (130 x 97cm.)
Painted in 1937
Chat et Lilas
signed lower left Van Dongen, signed again, dated and inscribed on the reverse Kees Van Dongen 75 Rue de Courcelles, Paris, France, Venise, No. 17 Lilas, oil on canvas
51½ x 38 3/8in. (130 x 97cm.)
Painted in 1937
Provenance
Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 20 April 1944, no. 557; bought directly from the Artist
Literature
J. Kyriazi, Van Dongen après le Fauvisme, Lausanne, 1976 (illustrated p.73)
Exhibited
Kansas, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Cornelis Theodorus Marie van Dongen, 1971, no. 102 (illustrated in colour p. 137)