Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)

Le Nil à Assouan

细节

Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Le Nil à Assouan
signed and inscribed 'van Dongen.Assouan.' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
12¼ x 18 in. (31.1 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed in 1913

来源

Dolly van Dongen, Paris (by descent from the artist).
Jacqueline Boucher, Paris (acquired from the above, 1972).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 October 2000, lot 149.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

展览

Tuscon, The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kees van Dongen: First American Retrospective, February-March 1971, no. 28.

拍品专文

Jacques Chalom des Cordes will include this work in the forthcoming Van Dongen catalogue raisonné being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.

Van Dongen left Paris to travel extensively in Spain, Morocco and Egypt between 1910 and 1913. The present work was executed in 1913 near the city of Aswan in southern Egypt.