Le peignoir rose: the pink robe

Details

Kees van Dongen (Delfshaven 1877-1968 Monte Carlo)
Le peignoir rose: the pink robe
signed with initials 'V.D.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
33 x 55.5 cm.
Painted in 1905.

Provenance

with Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, 1905.
La Peau de l'Ours; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2 March 1914, lot 13.
with Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris.
Jules Chavasse, Paris, his sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1922, lot 9.
Mr. Léon Clerc.
with Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1988.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1992, lot 121.
with Kunsthandel Borzo, 's-Hertogenbosch, where aquired by the family of the present owners.

Literature

Anita Hopmans, De onbekende Van Dongen, Vroege en Fauvistische tekeningen 1895-1912, Rotterdam, 1996, no. 102, ill.
Jan Jaap Heij, Hollands impressionisme, Bussum, 2013, pp. 15, 82.

Exhibited

Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Van Dongen, le peintre, 22 March-17 June 1990, p. 96.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen/Lyon, Musée des Beaux Arts/Paris, Institut Néerlandais, De onbekende Van Dongen. Vroege en Fauvistische tekeningen, 2 November 1996-8 June 1997, no. 102.
Laren, Singer Museum, Hollands impressionisme, 30 May-25 August 2013.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The woman depicted in Le Peignoir Rose is Marie Kalff (1874-1959), a Dutch actress he used several times as a model for his paintings. Kalff came to Paris in 1900 to take acting classes from Aurélien Marie Lugné, a famous French actor and director of the Theatre de l'Oeuvre. Under his leadership she played various roles and rapidly made a career for herself in the Parisian theatre scene. In 1904 she was invited to work for André Antoine, director of the Theatre Libre. After that she became an established artist and joined various theatre companies such as Saint-Georges de Bouhélier and Henri-René Lenormand.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Kees van Dongen catalogue critique of paintings and drawings being prepared by Jacques Chalom Des Cordes under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.

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