Mar 04, 2021 - Sale 2560

Sale 2560 - Lot 284

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
KEES VAN DONGEN
Straatscène.

Black chalk on paper, circa 1902. 130x165 mm; 5 1/8x6 1/2 inches. Signed in black chalk, lower right recto. Impression from a sketch in black chalk and inscribed "PJ" in ink, verso.

The inscription "PJ" suggests that the drawing was included as a pièce jointe (enclosure) in a letter.

Exhibited "The Van Dongen Nobody Knows," Boijmans Van Beunubgen Museum, Rotterdam, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, November 2, 1996-June 8, 1997, number. 57, page 151 (illustrated).

Ex-collection private collection, Los Angeles; private collection, Washington, D.C. and South Salem, New York.