Kees Van DONGEN (1877 - 1968) Portrait of Dolly, 1908 Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Annotated on the back "Guguse 18 avr 1908, Van Dongen". Exhibition and shipping labels on back. back of canvas. 33 x 24.3 cm Bibliography: Gaston Diehl, Van Dongen, Editions Flammarion, Lugano, 1968, reproduced in color on p.42. Exhibition: Kees Van Dongen, First American retrospective, February 14-March 14, 1971, University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson). Provenance Galerie Paul Pétridès (back label no. 65) Original Paul Pétridès certificate issued May 3, 1976, no. 10,098 A notice of inclusion in the Wildenstein Plattner Institute's catalog raisonné of the artist will be issued at the purchaser's expense.

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