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KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)
Les deux caniches
signed 'van Dongen' (lower right); signed 'Van Dongen' (on the reverse)
oil on board
14 x 10 5/8 in. (35.5 x 27 cm.)
Painted circa 1936-1946
Provenance
Private collection.
J.F. van Abbe, Aalst Waarlre.
Private collection; sale, Christie's, London, 1 December 1970, lot 87.
Anonymous sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 29 March 1971, lot 28.
Anonymous sale, Kunstveilingen Mak Van Waay, Amsterdam, 17 December 1973, lot 70.
Private collection, Rhineland.
Private collection, Hamburg, by descent from the above.
Anonymous sale, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 9 December 2017, lot 676.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen, 1949, no. 167.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Kees van Dongen werken van 1894 tot 1949, May - July 1949, no. 98, p. 13 (titled 'De Twee Hondjes').
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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.