Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from an Historic British Collection
Kees van Dongen
Montmartre (Matin)
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Historic British Collection
Kees van Dongen
1877 - 1968
Montmartre (Matin)
signed van Dongen (lower right); signed van Dongen. and titled on the stretcher
oil on canvas
46.4 by 51.7cm., 18¼ by 20⅜in.
Framed: 68.7 by 74.3cm., 27 by 29¼in.
Painted circa 1904.
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.
Mrs M. Th. van Berckel, Netherlands (acquired by 1953)
E. J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam (acquired from the above circa 1955)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 3rd December 1958, lot 145
B. L. Harris (purchased at the above sale)
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Mrs J. E. Binstock (probably acquired from the above in 1960. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 3rd December 1981, lot 665)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
E. J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam (acquired from the above circa 1955)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 3rd December 1958, lot 145
B. L. Harris (purchased at the above sale)
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Mrs J. E. Binstock (probably acquired from the above in 1960. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 3rd December 1981, lot 665)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Carel Scharten, 'Kees Van Dongen' in De Groene Amsterdammer, Amsterdam, June 1905, illustrated p. 7 (titled Druilig weer (Gezicht over Parijs, vanaf Montmartre))
Aleida Betsy Loosjes-Terpstra, Moderne kunst in Nederland: 1900-1914, Utrecht, 1987, pp. 25 & 233
Aleida Betsy Loosjes-Terpstra, Moderne kunst in Nederland: 1900-1914, Utrecht, 1987, pp. 25 & 233
(possibly) Paris, Galerie Ambroise Vollard, Kees van Dongen, 1904