Live Auction 3060The Hofland Collection
Kees van Dongen (Delfshaven 1877-1968 Monte Carlo)
Lot 41

Kees van Dongen (Delfshaven 1877-1968 Monte Carlo)

Le peignoir rose: the pink robe

Closed7 October 2014

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Kees van Dongen (Delfshaven 1877-1968 Monte Carlo)
Le peignoir rose: the pink robe
signed with initials 'V.D.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
33 x 55.5 cm.
Painted in 1905.

with Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, 1905.
La Peau de l'Ours; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2 March 1914, lot 13.
with Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris.
Jules Chavasse, Paris, his sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1922, lot 9.
Mr. Léon Clerc.
with Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1988.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1992, lot 121.
with Kunsthandel Borzo, 's-Hertogenbosch, where aquired by the family of the present owners.

Specialist note

The woman depicted in Le Peignoir Rose is Marie Kalff (1874-1959), a Dutch actress he used several times as a model for his paintings. Kalff came to Paris in 1900 to take acting classes from Aurélien Marie Lugné, a famous French actor and director of the Theatre de l'Oeuvre. Under his leadership she played various roles and rapidly made a career for herself in the Parisian theatre scene. In 1904 she was invited to work for André Antoine, director of the Theatre Libre. After that she became an established artist and joined various theatre companies such as Saint-Georges de Bouhélier and Henri-René Lenormand.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Kees van Dongen catalogue critique of paintings and drawings being prepared by Jacques Chalom Des Cordes under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.