To be Sold on Behalf of the State of the Netherlands
Kees van Dongen
La Fontaine
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
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Description
To be Sold on Behalf of the State of the Netherlands
Kees van Dongen
1877-1968
La Fontaine
signed van Dongen (lower center); signed van dongen (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
46 x 33 cm; 18⅛ x 13 in.
Executed circa 1925.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Kees Van Dongen Digital Catalogue Raisonné, being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 23 June 1960, lot 74
Hôtel George V, Paris, 22 June 1988, lot 95
Private collection
Sotheby’s, London, 27 June 1990, lot 236 (consigned by the above)
Private collection, Tokyo (acquired at the above sale)
Private collection, Tokyo
Sotheby’s, New York, 14 May 1997, lot 473 (consigned by the above)
Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam (acquired at the above sale)
Private collection, Netherlands (acquired from the above in 1998)
Thence by descent to the former owner