Biarritz

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Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Biarritz
signed 'Van Dongen' (lower left); dated and inscribed 'Biarritz 1923, 5 rue J Lamber' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
40 x 28 3/8 in. (101.5 x 72 cm.)
Painted in 1923

Provenance

The artist's studio.
Dolly van Dongen, Paris (daughter of the artist).
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 1986, lot 36.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 13 May 1999, lot 236.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen, Oeuvres de 1890 à 1948, March 1949, no. 128.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Van Dongen, October - November 1967, no. 131 (dated '1927'); this exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen.
Geneva, Musée de l'Athénée, Van Dongen, July - October 1976. Saint Antoine, L'Abbaye Foundation Rey-Pieferd, Hommage à Jongkind, van Gogh et van Dongen, 1978.

Special notice

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Sale room notice

This work is not dated and inscribed on the reverse as stated in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Jacques Chalom des Cordes will include this painting in his forthcoming van Dongen catalogue raisonné being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.

The present work was included in the major van Dongen retrospective staged at the Galerie Charpentier in early 1949. The show included around two hundred pictures and was the most complete exploration of van Dongen's art hitherto staged, charting his development from Fauve enfant terrible to society favourite. The show was so well received that it later transferred, in a reduced format, to the Musée Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

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