Bulletin 11 (VI:1), 1968

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Van Dongen's Souvenir de la 
Saison d'Opéra Russe, 1909

by Jean Sutherland Boggs
Director, The National Gallery of Canada

Pages  1  |  2  |  3 

Notes

1 Kees van Dongen, 1877-1968

Souvenir de la Saison d'opéra Russe, 1909 Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 25 1/2 in.

Inscription: Signed lower right; van Dongen; verso inscribed middle left: Ida Rubenstein; lower right. A. Parlova; lower left: Souvenir de la Saison d'Opéra Russe, - 1909.

Provenance: Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris; bought from Jacques Dubourg, Paris, 1966.

Exhibitions: Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1965, The Heroic Years: Paris 1908-14, no. 88.

2 Alexandre Benois, Reminiscences of the Russian Ballet, London: Putnam, 1947, p. 294.

3 Ibid., p. 297.

4 Isadora Duncan, My Life, New York: Award Books, 1966 (copyright, 1927), pp. 147-157, 185-186, 210-211.

5 V. Svétlow [pseud. for V. Ivchenko], Le Ballet contemporain, trans. M. D. Calvocoressi, St. Petersburg: Golicke and Willborg, 1912, pp. 35, 72.

6 Serge Lifar, Serge Diaghilev, His Life, His Work, His Legend, New York: Putnam,1940, p. 140, quotes Diaghilev about Fokine: "Duncan's influence on him was the very foundation of all his creative activity." In addition see Benois, Reminiscences, p. 294; Alexandre Benois, Memoirs, vol. II, London: Chatto & Windus, 1964, p. 243; Svétlow, p. 31.

7 Michel Fokine, Memoirs of a Ballet Master, Boston and Toronto: Little Brown, 1961, p.122.

8 Ibid.

9 Ibid., p. 127.

10 Ibid.

11 Benois, Reminiscences, p. 298.

12 André Levinson, Bakst, Berlin: "Russian Art", 1922, p. 146.

13 Péladan, "Les Arts du théâtre: un maitre du costume et du décor: Leon Bakst," L'art décoratif, June 1911, XIV année, no. 153, p. 286.

14 Benois, Reminiscences, p.297.

15 Ibid.

16 Ibid., p. 298.

17 Fokine, p. 126.

18 Ibid., p. 127.

19 Benois, Reminiscences, p. 295.

20 Fokine, p. 145.

21 Benois, Reminiscences, p. 298.

22 Svétlow, p. 100.

23 Quoted in Paul Magriel, Pavlova, New York; Henry Holt, 1947, p. 11.

24 Lifar, pp. 137-138.

25 Arnold Hasker" Diaghilev, his Artistic and Private Life, London: Gollancz, 1936, p. 212.

26 Fokine, p. 137.

27 Ibid., p. 126.

28 Haskell, p. 203.

29 Benois, Memoirs, vol. Il, p. 241; Philippe Jullian, Robert de Montesquiou, un Prince 1900. Paris: Académiques Perrin, 1965, pp. 306-308.

30 Svétlow, p. 78.

31 Benois, Reminiscences, pp. 295-296.

32 Van Dongen was born in a suburb of Rotterdam in 1877 and moved to Paris in 1899. The fullest monograph on this painter is Louis Chaumel, Van Dongen, Geneva: Cailler, 1967.

33 Edmond des Courières, Van Dongen, Paris: H. Floury, 1925, p. 22.

34 La Belle Fatima et sa troupe, c. 1905-7 , Collection M. B. Fize, Paris.

35 Jack Johnson (World Champion), 1909, present owner unknown.

36 des Courières, p. 21.

37 Ibid., p. 26.

38 Ibid., p. 35.

39 Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles, 50 Ans d'Art Moderne, 17 April-21 Jury 1958, no. 78, pl. 25.

40 Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Van Dongen, 13 October-26 November 1967, no. 72.

41 Ibid., no. 22. To further confuse the issue, Chaumel (above, note 32), p. 317, pl. 49, dates it 1907 and states that it was in Salon des Indépendants in 1908.

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