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Currently not on display

Kees van Dongen

Delfshaven, 1877 - Monaco, 1968

Woman in Turban

Date c. 1922
Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 64.8 x 54
Inscriptions Signed lower right: van Dongen
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. M421
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0191

Provenance

Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, stock no. 22316; purchased from the above by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, 1921 [see letter from Galerie Bernheim Jeune to Léonce Bénédite, dated 16 September 1921, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copy in NMWA curatorial file)]; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.

Exhibition History

2022
Kees van Dongen: from fauvism to les années folles, Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, 9 July 2022 - 25 September 2022, cat. no. 43, col. repr.

Bibliography

1955
La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 58, repr.
1961
Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-297.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 113, repr.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 610.
2018
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 421, col. repr.
2022
Kees van Dongen: from fauvism to les années folles (exh. cat). Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art; NHK Promotions, eds. [Tokyo], NHK Promotions, 2022, pp. 76, 124, cat. no. 43, col. repr.

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