Oil on paper mounted to canvas, circa 1907. 540x455 mm; 21¼x18 inches. Signed in ink, lower center.
Provenance Palais Galliera, Paris, March 13, 1961, lot 32 (as Portrait de femme). Galerie Samy Chalom, Paris. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 5, 1962, lot 46 (as Portrait de femme). Private collection, New York. Private collection, New York, by 1998. Private collection, New York. Thence by descent to current owner, New York.
Literature L. Chaumeil, Van Dongen: L'homme et l'artiste - La vie et l'œuvre, Pierre Cailler, Éditeur, Geneva, 1967, page 75, 317 (illustrated, plate 29).
Note This work will be included in the forthcoming Kees van Dongen Catalogue raisonné, being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
