Kees Van Dongen

Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968), Portrait de Mrs. Jean McKelvie Sclater-Booth. Photo Sotheby's Oil on canvas. Painted circa 1920. Signed Van Dongen (bottom center); signed Van Dongen and inscribed En Paris on the stretcher; 162.5 by 130.2 cm. Estimate 1,000,000—1,500,000 USD. Lot Sold 1,082,500 USD This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by Jacques Chalom des Cordes under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute. PROVENANCE: Mrs. Jean McKelvie Sclater-Booth (commissioned from the artist)... [Lire la suite]

Kees Van Dongen (Delfshaven, 1877 - Monaco, 1968), Musiciens des rues devant l'académie de billard, circa 1904. photo Artcurial - Briest-Poulain-F.Tajan Encre, lavis d'encre et aquarelle sur papier. Signé en bas à gauche "vdongen", 45 x 28,50 cm (17,55 x 11,12 in.) - Estimation : 12 000 / 15 000 €Bibliographie : Cette oeuvre figurera au catalogue raisonné actuellement en préparation sous l'égide du Wildenstein InstituteCommentaire : Une attestation du Wildenstein Institute sera remise à l'acquéreur KeesVan Dongen (Delfshaven,... [Lire la suite]

Kees Van Dongen, Le Sphinx, 1925. Musée dArt moderne de ta Ville de Paris © Musée dArt Moderne / Roger-Viollet © ADAGP, Paris 2011 Le Musée d’Art moderne propose de redécouvrir Kees Van Dongen (1877- 1968). artiste fulgurant et déroutant qui trouva à Paris la reconnaissance artistique dans Les années 20. L’exposition restitue les multiples facettes du personnage : peintre hollandais prompt à la caricature et à la dénonciation sociale, artiste d’avant-garde et figure du fauvisme, devenu une des grandes figures de La scène parisienne... [Lire la suite]

The sale was led by Henri Matisse’s Bouquet pour le quatorze juillet, which climbed to $28,642,500 (est. $18/25 million). This EPA/YM YIK NEW YORK, NY.- Tonight at Sotheby’s, the spring Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art brought a total of $195,697,000, nearly reaching the high end of the presale estimate (est. $141/204 million). Forty-three works achieved prices over $1 million, ten works exceeded $5 million, four works brought prices over $10 million, and two works sold for over $15 million. The sale was 87.7% sold... [Lire la suite]

Henri Matisse, The Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908 © Succession H. Matisse c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2010 AMSTERDAM.- Outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Van Dongen, De Vlaminck, Derain and many other contemporaries of theirs will be seen in a magnificent display from 6 March 2010 to 17 September 2010 at the Hermitage Amsterdam in the exhibition Matisse to Malevich. Pioneers of modern art from the Hermitage. For this exhibition about 75 paintings have been selected from the Hermitage St.- Petersburg, which has one of the... [Lire la suite]

An employee poses for photographers in front of Pablo Picasso's ''Tete de femme'' painting at Christie's auction house in London. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth LONDON (REUTERS).- Pablo Picasso once again proved his appeal to wealthy collectors when the artist's portrait of his second wife Jacqueline was the top lot at Christie's impressionist and modern art sale in London on Tuesday. "Tete de femme (Jacqueline)", painted in 1963, fetched 8.1 million pounds ($13 million), around double its presale estimate of 3-4 million... [Lire la suite]

Kees Van Dongen, "Portrait of Felicja Blumental". White chalk and charcoal on poster, 58 x 39.5 cm. 27.9.1959 TEL AVIV.- An original sketch by Kees Van Dongen of the pianist Felicja Blumental was discovered in the Felicja Blumental Music Center in Tel Aviv amongst the late pianist’s memorabilia. While at a Beethoven festival featuring a solo performance of Felicja Blumental with the Pasdeloup Orchestra conducted by Heinreich Hollreiser at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris on the 27th of September 1959, Van Dongen, a... [Lire la suite]

Kees van Dongem (1877-1968), "Gitane", circa 1910-1911, signed 'van Dongen' on the lower right. Oil on canvas, (100.2 x 81.2 cm.) 39.3/8 x 32 inches. Estimate: £5,500,000-7,500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2010 LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale and the auction of The Art of the Surreal will take place on 2 February 2010 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £56,505,000 to £80,805,000. The leading highlights include Gitane by Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) (estimate: £5.5 million to £7.5 million);... [Lire la suite]

Pablo Picasso, Buste d’homme. Painted on October 15, 1969. Oil on canvas, 76¾ by 51⅛in. (195 by 130 cm). Est. $8/12 million. Photo: Sotheby's NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s fall Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York on 4 November 2009 presents a remarkable offering ranging from an exquisite group of classic Impressionist pictures by Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley from the family of legendary dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, to key works by modern masters such as Picasso, Giacometti, Derain and Miró. Many come from esteemed... [Lire la suite]

Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968)  Nature morte au faisan, 1890 Huile sur toile. Signée en bas à droite. 94,5 X 67,5 cm. Estimation : € 180,000-220,000 Provenance :  Collection Dolly van Dogen, Paris Galerie Robin-Leadouze, Cannes Collection particulière, France Exposition : Van Dongen, Le Peintre 1877-1968, Musée d''Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 22 mars - 17 juin 1990, décrit page 84 et reproduit page 85 Tajan. ART IMPRESSIONNISTE ET MODERNE. 04 juin 2009, Espace Tajan www.tajan,.com