Kees Van Dongen
Danseuse Bohémienne, c.1907
oil on canvas
65 x 49.7cm
signed lower right van Dongen
Collections
the Artist, until at least 1949
Richard G. Sussman, New York
Donald D. Perkins, USA
His sale; Sothebys, London, 02/07/1975, lot 74
Piccadilly Gallery, London, acquired from the above sale
Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above
Exhibitions
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen: Oeuvres de 1890 a 1948, March – April 1949, n. 77, (titled
Danseuse orientale)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Les Fauves, 7 Oct. 1952 – 4 Jan. 1953, no. 41; this
exhibition then travelled to Minneapolis, Museum of Art, 21 Jan. – 22 Feb. 1953; San Francisco,
Museum of Art, 13 March – 12 April 1953; and Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto 1–31 May
1953
Dallas, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Kees van Dongen, 19 March – 19 April 1959
Literature
The Burlington Magazine, London, vol. CXVII, no, 868, July 1975 (illus.)
A. Hopmans, ed., The Van Dongen nobody knows: Early Fauvist drawings 1895 – 1912, exh. cat.,
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1996-97 (illus. p. 248, dated c. 1909-10)
65 x 49.7cm
signed lower right van Dongen
Collections
the Artist, until at least 1949
Richard G. Sussman, New York
Donald D. Perkins, USA
His sale; Sothebys, London, 02/07/1975, lot 74
Piccadilly Gallery, London, acquired from the above sale
Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above
Exhibitions
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen: Oeuvres de 1890 a 1948, March – April 1949, n. 77, (titled
Danseuse orientale)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Les Fauves, 7 Oct. 1952 – 4 Jan. 1953, no. 41; this
exhibition then travelled to Minneapolis, Museum of Art, 21 Jan. – 22 Feb. 1953; San Francisco,
Museum of Art, 13 March – 12 April 1953; and Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto 1–31 May
1953
Dallas, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Kees van Dongen, 19 March – 19 April 1959
Literature
The Burlington Magazine, London, vol. CXVII, no, 868, July 1975 (illus.)
A. Hopmans, ed., The Van Dongen nobody knows: Early Fauvist drawings 1895 – 1912, exh. cat.,
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1996-97 (illus. p. 248, dated c. 1909-10)