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Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Lot 437 PROPERTY FROM THE JACQUELINE AND PIERRE SIMON COLLECTION

Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)

Robert de Saint-Loup à Balbec (A la recherche du temps perdu)

Closed14 May 2021

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Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Robert de Saint-Loup à Balbec (A la recherche du temps perdu)
stamped with signature 'Van Dongen' (lower right)
gouache and watercolor on paper laid down on card
9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25 x 19.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1946-1947

Proust collection, Paris (gift from the artist).
Private collection, Paris (by descent from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 30 June 1976, lot 240.
(probably) Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.

Specialist note

In 1947, the publisher Gallimard released the novel A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust, illustrated with 77 watercolors by Van Dongen made especially for this publication. The present work is part of this extraordinary body of illustration, and was gifted by the artist to the Proust family.