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Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968) and Foujita Tsuguharu (1886 - 1968)
Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968) and Foujita Tsuguharu - (1886 - 1968) - watercolor
- verso - 24x30cm
On my way to a meeting of the Stipend committee in the eighties,
I saw this watercolor in a window of a shop on the Haarlemmerdijk in Amsterdam.
After asking prices of some random objects, I got around to this watercolor; "Oh,
the van Dongen / Foujita?" the manager said. He said he was asking
only three hundred guilders because he wasn't so sure that he would
have an authentic van Dongen in his store. I offered him two hundred and
was about to leave when he agreed and told me never to tell him if it proved
to be an authentic work by van Dongen and Foujita.
One day my colleague and friend
Janjelle
Stroosma visited me and saw the watercolor. He remembered a story he
had heard from the graphic artist Wim Zwiers: van Dongen and Foujita wandered
into an auction that was taking place in Paris in 1929, their painting materials
still with them. The auctioneer recognized them immediately and asked them
to make a work on the spot and donate it to the charity for which the auction
was being held, which indeed they did. Janjelle was yet unaware that I had
found an auction sticker on the back of the watercolor. If anyone reading
this has more information on this story, then please email me - lucien at
denarend dot com.
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