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Kees van Dongen

Au bois (Au bois de Boulogne)

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June 25, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Bid

450,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Kees van Dongen

1877 - 1968


Au bois (Au bois de Boulogne)

signed van Dongen. (lower right)

oil on canvas

91.7 by 59.7 cm. 36⅛ by 23½ in.

framed: 111.1 by 79 cm. 43¾ by 31⅛ in.

Executed circa 1909.


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.

Armand Drouant, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1959 and until 1966)

Private Collection, Germany

Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1987, lot 29 (consigned by the above)

Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesmann, Amsterdam (acquired from the above sale)

Christie's, London, The Dr. Anton C. R. Dressmann Collection, 9 April 2002, lot 109 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Salon d'Automne, 1909, no. 431 (titled Au Bois)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Van Dongen, 1937-38, no. 83 (titled Au bois and dated 1921)

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Chevaux et Cavaliers, 1948, no. 122 (titled Cavalier parlant á une dame and dated 1910)

Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Van Dongen, 1959, no. 22, p. 26 (titled Cavalier au Bois and dated circa 1910)

Tokyo, Takashimaya; Osaka, Takashimaya; Fukuoka, Iwataya and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Les Fauves, 1965, no. 78, illustrated (titled La femme au cavalier)

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Le Fauvisme français et les debut de l'Expressionisme allemand, 1966, no. 114, illustrated (dated 1906)

Hamburg, Kunstverein, Matisse und seine Freunde: Les Fauves, 1966, fig. 94, no. 72, illustrated

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne and Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Van Dongen, 1967-68, no. 69 (dated circa 1909-10)

Lausanne, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Homage à Van Dongen: Peintures et aquarelles fauves, 1971, no.8

Geneva, Musée de l'Athénée, Van Dongen 1877-1968, 1976, no. 19, n.p., illustrated in colour (titled Cavalier au bois and dated circa 1907-08)

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Kees van Dongen, 1989-90, no. 10, illustrated in colour (dated 1906)

Monaco, Salle d’expositions du Quai-Antoine-I; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts and Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Kees van Dongen, 2008-09, no. 128, p. 194, illustrated in colour (dated circa 1908-09)

Louis Chaumeil, Van Dongen, l'homme et l'artiste - la vie et l'œuvre, Geneva, 1967, pl. XI, illustrated in colour (titled Cavalier au Bois and dated 1906)

Jean Melas Kyriazi, Van Dongen et le Fauvisme, Lausanne, 1971, no. 40, p. 98, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Kees Van Dongen, 2009, p. 153, illustrated in colour