Robert de Saint-Loup à Balbec (A la recherche du temps perdu)

Details

Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Robert de Saint-Loup à Balbec (A la recherche du temps perdu)
stamped with signature 'Van Dongen' (lower right)
gouache and watercolor on paper laid down on card
9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25 x 19.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1946-1947

Provenance

Proust collection, Paris (gift from the artist).
Private collection, Paris (by descent from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 30 June 1976, lot 240.
(probably) Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.

Literature

M. Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu, Paris, 1947, vol. I, p. 505 (illustrated in color prior to stamped signature).

Sale Room Notice

Please note that this painting has been requested by the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, for its exhibition, Marcel Proust, du côté de la mère, which will be shown April 13 to August 28, 2022.

Conditions of sale

Lot Essay

In 1947, the publisher Gallimard released the novel A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust, illustrated with 77 watercolors by Van Dongen made especially for this publication. The present work is part of this extraordinary body of illustration, and was gifted by the artist to the Proust family.

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