Live Auction 7832Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper
Christie’s roundel
Lot 302 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)

Jeune fille à sa toilette

Closed3 February 2010

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GBP 21,250

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Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Jeune fille à sa toilette
signed and inscribed 'van Dongen à Germain(e?) Coquet pour la vie' (lower right)
gouache, watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on the reverse of the title-page of Galerie Charpentier 1942
9½ x 6¼ (24.4 x 15.9 cm.)
Executed most probably in 1942

Germain(e?) Coquet, Paris, a gift from the artist.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 15 May 1986, lot 177.
Acquired at the above; sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 February 2005, lot 283.
Private collection, London, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

To be included in the forthcoming Kees van Dongen Catalogue critique being prepared by Jacques Chalom Des Cordes under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.