Provenance
Private Collection, France (sold: Sotheby's, London, 2nd December 1987, lot 176) Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale) Thence by descent to the present owners
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Ambroise Vollard, Kees van Dongen , 1904, no. 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 or 90
Literature
Anita Hopmans, "1895-1908: Le 'Kropotkine' du Bateau-Lavoir", in Van Dongen: Fauve, anarchiste et mondain (exhibition catalogue), Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2011, illustrated in colour p. 26
Catalog summary
Property from a Private Collection, Europe Kees van Dongen 1877 - 1968 La Tour Eiffel signed Van Dongen (lower left); signed Kees van Dongen and titled on the stretcher oil on canvas 46 by 55cm., 18⅛ by 21⅝ in. Framed: 65.5 by 74.5cm., 25¾ by 29⅜ in. Painted in 1904. This work will be included in the forthcoming van Dongen Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. Provenance Private Collection, France (sold: Sotheby's, London, 2nd December 1987, lot 176) Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale) Thence by descent to the present owners Exhibited Paris, Galerie Ambroise Vollard, Kees van Dongen , 1904, no. 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 or 90 Literature Anita Hopmans, "1895-1908: Le 'Kropotkine' du Bateau-Lavoir", in Van Dongen: Fauve, anarchiste et mondain (exhibition catalogue), Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2011, illustrated in colour p. 26