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Kees van Dongen

Delfshaven, 1877 - Monaco, 1968

Hall of Casino

Date	1920
Materials and Techniques	oil on canvas
Size（cm）	73 x 54.3
Inscriptions	Signed lower left: van Dongen
Credit Line	Matsukata Collection
Standard ref.	M422
Category	Paintings
Collection Number	P.1959-0192

Many of van Dongen's works in the 1920s feature images of fashionable society, street scenes and women wearing stylish clothes. Hall of Casino is an example of these works. The features of this period in his works include figures elongated into attenuated forms and a palette that is lighter and softer than the palette of his works before World War Ⅰ. The extreme difference in size between the figures in the background and those in the foreground, the high vantage point, and the attention spent on the clothing details, rather than on the facial features, all make the work a decidedly decorative piece. Another oil painting of the same period, Woman in Turban, is in the NMWA's Matsukata collection. (Source: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2009, cat. no.111)

Provenance

Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, stock no. 22319; 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

1984: Exposition l'Ecole de Paris : les peintres de la tristesse mélancolique et de la poésie éternelle, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 4 October 1984 - 4 November 1984, cat. no. 2, repr.
1988: Paintings by French Artists from the Late 19th to Early 20th Century in Japanese Collections, The State Puskin Museum, Moscow, 12 January 1988 - 10 February 1988, The State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 16 February-24 March, cat. no. 31
1989: The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 26, repr.
1989: The Old Matsukata Collection, Kobe City Museum, 14 September 1989 - 26 November 1989, cat. no. 57, col. repr.
1995: Modern Japanese Art-Between the East and the West, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, 1 November 1995 - 30 November 1995, cat. no. 55, col. repr.
1997: Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 50
2006: Paris, Enchanted Capital of Art: Ecole de Paris and ｔhe Japanese Artists, Nagoya City Art Museum, 18 November 2006 - 24 December 2006, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 6 January-12February 2007, cat. no. 2, col. repr.
2014: Modern Western Paintings and the Old Matsukata Collection, Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, 18 July 2014 - 31 August 2014, cat. no. 59, col. repr.
2016: Modern Beauty: Art and Fashion in France, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone (Kanagawa), 19 March 2016 - 4 September 2016, cat. no. P49, col. repr.
2019: The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 122, col. repr.

Bibliography

1955: La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), repr. p. 4.
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-298.
1971: Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 97, repr.
1975: Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 76, repr.
1978: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 80, repr.
1979: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 114, repr.
1984: Le catalogue de l'exposition l'Ecole de Paris: les peintres de la tristesse mélancolique et de la poésie éternelle (exh. cat.). Musée d'Art Moderne de Gunma, ed. [Takasaki], Musée d'Art Moderne de Gunma, 1984, cat. no. 2, repr.
1988: Paintings by French Artists from the Late 19th to Early 20th Century in Japanese Collections (exh. cat.). The State Pushkin Museum; The State Hermitage State Museum, [n.p.], 1988, cat. no. 31, repr.
1989: The Old Matsukata Collection (exh. cat.). Kobe City Museum, ed. [Kobe], "Matsukata Collection Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1989, pp. 46, 171-172, cat. no. 57, col. repr.
1990: The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 611.
1992: The French Modern Art, from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, ed. Okinawa, Urasoe Art Museum, 1992, p.38, cat. no. 28, col. repr
1995: Modern Japanese Art: Between the East and the West (exh. cat.). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed. [Nagasaki], Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, 1995, pp. 70, 139, 148, cat. no. 55, col. repr.
2006: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2006 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 111, col. repr.
2006: Paris, Enchanted Capital of Art: Ecole de Paris and the Japanese Artists(exh.cat.). The Tokushima Modern Art Museum. et al., eds. [Tokyo], The Japan Association of Art Museums, 2006, cat. no. 2, col. repr.
2009: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 111, col. repr.
2014: Modern Western Paintings and the Old Matsukata Collection(exh. cat.). [Kagoshima], Kagoshima City Museum of Art, 2014, cat. no.59, col. repr.
2016: Modern Beauty: Art and Fashion in France (exh. cat.). Pola Museum of Art, ed. Hakone-machi(Kanagawa), PolaMuseum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2016, p. 128, cat. no. P49, col. repr.
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. 422, col. repr.
2019: The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 214-215, 369-370, cat. no. 122, col. repr.
2021: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 168, 185, cat. no. Y3_48 | T3_55, col. repr.

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