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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 16, 2009 | Pierre Berge & Associes | Paris | ART MODERNE | 22 | $****** - ****** | "Painting is the most beautiful lie. Painting is a vice, I can"t do anything else |
paintings
38 x 61 cm (14.96 x 24.02 in)
Oil on canvas
Collection Privée
KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)
"Painting is the most beautiful lie. Painting is a vice, I can"t do anything else." Kees Van Dongen On the eve of the First World War, Kees Van Dongen met the Marquise Casati and especially Jasmy Jacob, who would become his companion. These two muses took the painter into the artistic circles of the Roaring Twenties where Baroness d.Oettingen, Apollinaire, Kisling, Picasso and Max Jacob, whom he knew from the bohemian days of Montmartre, met. Van Dongen organized balls in his studio and was part of the All-Paris society, which earned him, once again, numerous commissions for portraits which are the chronicle of an artistic avant-garde. Discovering sociability, Van Dongen became an actor and a witness to the Roaring Twenties: Deauville or Cannes, the racecourses, became the privileged places of a sacred monster of figurative painting. The 1920s and 1930s, a period of incredible success, saw the artist move to Cannes. The landscape presented illustrates this sweetness of life in an almost abstract approach, where lines and colors are the backbone of the composition. A visionary of an abstract painting that could be compared to certain compositions by Nicolas de Stael, the view of the port of Cannes is punctuated like a score between the curve of the sailboat, the accent of the lighthouse, the line of the horizon. The artist confides to us here his desire to preserve the essential, reflection of a peaceful soul. KEES VAN DONGEN (1877-1968) The lighthouse and sailboat in Cannes Oil on canvas. Signed lower center: Van Dongen H: 38 cm W: 61 cm
