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Kees VAN DONGEN
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Kees VAN DONGEN
See original version (French)
Estimate €800,000 - €1,200,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Kees VAN DONGEN
Brigitte Bardot – circa 1959–1960
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘Van Dongen’ in the top left-hand corner; countersigned with the initials ‘VD’ on the back of the stretcher
130.2 x 97 cm
Provenance: Kees Van Dongen
Marie-Claire Van Dongen, Monaco (by descent from the previous owner, circa May 1968)
Private collection, Monaco (by descent from the previous owner, circa July 2011)
Private collection (through descent from the previous owner, circa May 2025)
Exhibitions: Paris, Musée Galliera, ‘Painters as Witnesses of Their Time: Love’, January–March 1964, reproduced in colour on the cover and on the exhibition poster
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, *A Comprehensive Exhibition of Paintings 1900 to 1925 by Van Dongen*, November–December 1965, no. 31, reproduced in colour (dated 1960)
Tokyo, Iselan Gallery; Nagoya, Meitetsu Gallery; Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art; Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum; Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu Museum of Art, March–July 1978, no. 50, reproduced in colour
Bibliography: J.-F. Chabrun, “Van Dongen rediscovers his past”, in *Paris-Match*, no. 548, 10 October 1959, reproduced in colour (installation view, titled *Portrait of B.B.*)
“Schilder van der Vrow: Kees van Dongen, full of life despite being 83”, in *De Volkskrant*, 16 June 1960, reproduced
C. Megret, “The Most French of the Dutch”, 12 August 1960 (video of the interview with Kees Van Dongen in his studio; https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/cpf08009173/le-plus-francais-des-hollandais)
“The fuss surrounding Kees van Dongen has died down”, in *Televizier*, no. 3, special issue, *Televizier: Kees Van Dongen*, 21 January 1961, reproduced
H. Ten Berge, “Kees van Dongen saw Brigitte change”, in *De Telegraaf*, 14 February 1964, reproduced on p. 11
G. Diehl, *Van Dongen*, Flammarion, Paris, 1968, pp. 72, 85, reproduced in colour on p. 84 (titled *Portrait of Brigitte Bardot*, private collection, Monaco)
Cor Dekkinga 1959, *Painting of Brigitte Bardot by Van Dongen*, Photograph, LaM, Lille, inv. no. 2009.8.2 (11) (installation view, photograph erroneously dated 1959; the correct date is circa 1961)
Cor Dekkinga 1959, Van Dongen’s studio, Photograph, LaM, Lille, inv. no. 2009.88 (installation view; photograph erroneously dated 1959; the correct date is circa 1961)
This work will be included in the digital Van Dongen catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.
A certificate of inclusion from the Wildenstein Plattner Institute will be issued at the purchaser’s expense.
Kees VAN DONGEN
130.2 x 97 cm
See original version (French)
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