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Kees VAN DONGEN
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Kees VAN DONGEN
See original version (French)
Estimate €10,000 - €20,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Kees VAN DONGEN
The Staircase of a Hundred Steps or Versailles, the Grand Staircase – 1925
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right “van Dongen / versailles”, countersigned on the reverse on the stretcher “van Dognen.”, signed with initials, annotated and numbered on the reverse “No. 5./Versailles / 12 / VD3 8”
81 x 100.5 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 (by descent from the previous owner, circa May 2025)
Exhibitions: Paris, the artist’s studio (5, rue Juliette Lamber), Van Dongen Exhibition, November–December 1925, no. 4 (entitled *The Staircase of a Hundred Steps*)
Venice, Palazzo dell’Esposizione, 17th International Art Biennale: Solo exhibition of Cornelis T.M. Van Dongen, 1930, no. 16, p. 191 (titled *Versailles-scalinata*)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Van Dongen, December 1937–January 1938
Paris, Galerie Borghèse, Van Dongen, October–November 1938, no. 5 (titled ‘Versailles, the Grand Staircase’)
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen, Fifty Years of Painting, November–December 1942, no. 99 (titled ‘Versailles, the Grand Staircase’)
Bordeaux, Museum of Fine Arts, Van Dongen, December 1943–January 1944, no. 48 (titled ‘Versailles, the Grand Staircase’)
Tokyo, Iselan Gallery; Nagoya, Meitetsu Gallery; Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art; Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum; Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu Museum of Art, March–July 1978, no. 35, reproduced (titled ‘Versailles, the Grand Staircase’)
Bibliography: A. Hopmans, “Kunsthandel Frans Buffa & Zonen: ‘representative in Holland’ of Kees van Dongen”, in *Kunsthandel Frans Buffa & Zonen 1790–1951: Schoonheid te koop*, edited by Sulvia Alting van Geusan, Mayjken Jonkman, and Aukje Vergeest, exhibition catalogue, fig. 134, reproduced on p. 132 (installation view “Zaal in Tentoonstelling Van Dongen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1937–1938”)
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
81 x 100.5 cm
See original version (French)
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