Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection
Kees van Dongen
La Dame en noir
Live auction begins on:
June 24, 05:00 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Kees van Dongen
1877 - 1968
La Dame en noir
signed van Dongen. (lower left)
oil on canvas
100.4 by 81.7 cm. 39½ by 32⅛ in.
Executed circa 1910-11.
This work will be included in the forthcoming van Dongen Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris (acquired from the artist circa October 1910)
Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf (until 1922)
Galerie Paul Pétridès, Paris (acquired before 1978)
Private Collection, Paris
Sotheby’s, New York, 9 May 1995, lot 71 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
(probably) Dresden, Emil Richter, Katalog der IV. Ausstellung der Künstlervereinigung Dresden, 1914
Hamburg, Galerie Commeter, Kees van Dongen, 1919
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 48. Sonderausstellung Meisterwerke Deutscher Kunst aus Hannoverschem Privatbesitz; Kees van Dongen. H.F. Bieling, Gerlwh: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Plastik, 1922, no. 51
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan 2014-16)
Rosa Schapire, “Ausstellungen: Hamburg,” Der Cicerone: Halbmonatsschrift für die Interessen des Kunstforschers & Sammler 11, November 1919, p. 530
Research undertaken for the present sale has not identified any record of the work remaining with, or returning to, Alfred Flechtheim or his gallery following its sale in connection with the 1922 Kestner-Gesellschaft exhibition in Hanover.
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