LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.45 in. (100.20 cm.) (height) by 31.97 in. (81.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'van Dongen.' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Van Dongen, January - June 2002, no. 43 (illustrated p. 87). Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Kees van Dongen, Elegant Lines: lithos, pochoirs and paintings, December 2002 - May 2003. Monaco, Nouveau Musée National, Van Dongen, June - September 2008, no. 162 (illustrated p. 231); this exhibition later travelled to Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, January - April 2009 and Barcelona, Museu Picasso, June - September 2009. Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, Meer dan kleur, fauvisme en expressionisme More than colour, Fauvism and Expressionism, April - October 2009 (illustrated p. 14).

Literature:

M. Vallès-Bled, 'Rotterdam, Paris et le rêve d'Orient', in exh. cat., Van Dongen, du nord et du sud, Musée Fleury, Lodève, 2004, p. 19.

Provenance:

M. Midy, by whom acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent. Galerie Cazeau-de la Béraudière, Paris. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.