Artist:
Kees van Dongen
Artwork:
La Femme Aux Colonnes
Size:
100 x 65.1 cm
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Creation year:
1911
Marks:
Signed 'van Dongen' (lower right)
Category:
Paintings
Artwork details :
Painted in 1910-1911
Provenance:
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, 1913); Galerie Charpentier, Paris (by 1960); Galerie de l'Elysee (Alex Maguy), Paris; Yul Brynner, Buchillon (by 1967); sale, Christie’s, London, 14 April 1970, lot 62; Jean Melas Kyriazi, Lausanne (acquired at the previous sale); Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 11 November 1987, lot 43; Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1996, lot 38; Private collection, California; sale, Christie's, New York, 12 May 1998, lot 34
Exhibition history:
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Van Dongen, June 1911, no. 32 (titled La danseuse aux colonnes, Maroc); Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen: Oeuvres de 1890 a 1948, 1949, no. 56 (titled La danseuse aux colonnes and dated 1910; with incorrect dimensions); Paris, Musee National d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Van Dongen, October 1967-January 1968, no. 60 (illustrated and dated 1908)