Fancy Dog (Translation)
Chien de Luxe (Primary Title)

Kees Van Dongen, Dutch (active in France), 1877 - 1968 (Artist)

1920
Dutch
oil on canvas
Unframed: 7 × 9 in. (17.78 × 22.86 cm)
Framed: 10 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. (26.04 × 31.75 cm)
83.20
Pets are frequent subjects of artists and patrons as seen in this painting and in George Stubbs’s Mrs. French’s White Lap Dog, also in the Mellon collection. Even in an abstract form shown in strict profile against a flat background of unmixed color, van Dongen is able to convey the preciousness of the animal.
Signed upper right: "Van Dongen" Inscribed on verso: "Chien de Luxe / et vie de chien quand-meme appartient a Jean-Marie van Dongen / VD"
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
2018-2020: "Gallery Takeover: European Masterpieces from the Mellon Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, March 1, 2018 - March 1, 2020
©artist or artist’s estate

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