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Watercolour on charcoal drawing on strong vellum. 48,8 x 37,5cm. Signed bottom right: vanDongen. Framed.

Provenance:
Collection Legier, Paris
Gallery Pasteur, Oran/Algeria
German private possession

Expertise:
A confirmation on this drawing's authenticity by Jacques Chalom des Cordes, Paris, from 17. November 2006 is at hand. This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné being currently prepared by Jacques Chalom des Cordes, Wildenstein Institute, Paris.
Only few artists showed a so intense, life-long devotion to a single subject. In the case of Kees van Dongen the subject were women. Having belonged to the Fauves' circle he made his mark as a renowned and asked for portraitist in he 1920s and created colourful images of society - mostly its important ladies. His watercolours are of private nature. As it is typical for him they represent women and society, bathing women or nudes in colourful ways. He spent a lot of time in Southern France which marks his palette; with his striking placative images he anticipated later pop art artists such as Wesselmann or Warhol, yet on the basis of a different artistic concept. "He was the 'painter of elegant neuroses' for some, a Van Dyck of mundane society for others. In his studio he received 'Tout Paris, tout New York, Tout Everybody', and drew his incomes and his models from his prosperous contacts ... a 'Factory' of the Cocktail period." (Translated from Natalie Bondil, Van Dongen, Montreal, 2008, p.11).