Kees van Dongen

Collection H. van Abbe, Eindhoven
Collection. A.J.A. van Abbe, Eindhoven
Galerie Henri Gaffié, Nice
Sale: Christie’s, London, December 3, 1984, lot 26
Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, May 11, 1987, lot 68
Private Collection, Japan
Private Collection, The Netherlands

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Van Dongen, 1937-1938, no. 21
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Van Dongen, 1938, no. 16
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Schilderijen uit de verzameling van wijlen den heer Henri Van Abbe, 1940
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans, Kees van Dongen, 1949, no. 79
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven verzamelt. Particulier Kunstbezit, 1955, no. 166
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum/Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, Eindhoven verzamelt. Van Jongkind tot Jorn in Particulier Bezit, 1960-1961, no. 43

Denys Sutton writes: "[Van Dongen's] reputation was made in the 1920s and 30s by his portraits. His major successes were scored with his portraits of women...in which chic and charm are admirably suggested...it is as well to reflect on the wise words of J.-L. Vaudoyer: 'The portraits of M. Van Dongen will probably later be psychological documents. Like a Van Dyck or a Gainsborough, a Goya or a Guys, M. Van Dongen is the moralist of this Salon' " (Denys Sutton, Van Dongen, Tucson, 1971, p. 48).

Fig. 1 Kees van Dongen in Deauville, June 1938