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拍品專文
Jacques Chalom des Cordes will include this drawing in his forthcoming Van Dongen catalogue raisonné currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.
The present work is the original drawing for one of the 28 illustrations executed by Van Dongen for Victor Margueritte's book, La Garçonne. This avant-garde novel was published on 12 July 1922, the very day the French Senat denied women the right to vote. It became a huge bestseller - approximately 600,000 copies were sold - and more than 150 articles were written on La Garçonne, as the notorious book caused a scandal. The story's main character Monique dresses like a boy, sports a bobbed haircut, smokes cigarettes, uses drugs and has lesbian mistresses. Critics reproached its pornographic connotations, and its socio-political subject matter of the equality between men and women was ill received. The tumult it raised was so big that Victor Margueritte was cast out by the Légion d'Honneur, yet Van Dongen was praised for his lively illustrations.
The present work is the original drawing for one of the 28 illustrations executed by Van Dongen for Victor Margueritte's book, La Garçonne. This avant-garde novel was published on 12 July 1922, the very day the French Senat denied women the right to vote. It became a huge bestseller - approximately 600,000 copies were sold - and more than 150 articles were written on La Garçonne, as the notorious book caused a scandal. The story's main character Monique dresses like a boy, sports a bobbed haircut, smokes cigarettes, uses drugs and has lesbian mistresses. Critics reproached its pornographic connotations, and its socio-political subject matter of the equality between men and women was ill received. The tumult it raised was so big that Victor Margueritte was cast out by the Légion d'Honneur, yet Van Dongen was praised for his lively illustrations.