Portrait de femme brune

Details

Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Portrait de femme brune
indistinctly signed 'van Dongen' (lower right); inscribed 'le peintre' (centre right); inscribed 'napierkowska' and again indistinctly (lower centre)
brush and India ink on paper
17 7/8 x 11¾ in. (45.3 x 29.8 cm.)

Provenance

C.A. Girard collection.
Galerie Bellier, Paris.
Acquired at the above by the present owner in 1997.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bellier, Oeuvres choisies, XIXème et XXème siècle, summer - autumn 1988, no. 64 (illustrated).

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Jacques Chalom Des Cordes will include this work in the forthcoming Kees Van Dongen catalogue raisonné being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.

The inscription on this drawing possibly refers to the well-known silent film star Stacia Napierkowska (1886-1945), who starred in Les Vampires, 1915, by Louis Feuillade and L'Atlantide, 1920, by Jacques Feyder.

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