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KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)
Souvenir de Dordrecht
signed and titled 'Kees van Dongen Souvenir de Dordrecht' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
65 x 54cm.
Painted in 1907
Provenance
Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris.
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot Paris, 31 January 1938, lot 143.
John van der Klip, France (acquired at the above sale).
Their Sale, Hôtel Drouot Paris, 30 April 1975, lot 76.
Bertus and Bertha Meijer, Wassenaar.
Thence by descent to the present owners.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Kees van Dongen digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Literature
A. B. Loosjes-Terpstra, Moderne kunst in Nederland: 1900-1914, Utrecht 1959 (illustrated, p. 371).
L. Chaumeil, Van Dongen. L’homme et l'artiste - La vie et l'oeuvre, Geneva 1967, (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Van Dongen, 1967, no. 8 (as "Eglise de Dordrecht"). This exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Marseilles, Musée Cantini, Hommage à Van Dongen, 1969, no. 6 (as "Eglise de Dordrecht").
Laren, Singer Laren, Kees Van Dongen. De weg naar succes, 2023, no. 57 (illustrated, p. 108).
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