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Kees van Dongen was born in Delfshaven, then on the outskirts, and today a borough, of Rotterdam.He was the second of four children in a middle-class family. [4] In 1892, at age 16, Kees van Dongen started his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, working with J. Striening and J.G. Heyberg. [4]
Kees van Dongen, 1911, Femme a la balustrade (Woman on the balustrade, En la plaza), oil on canvas, 81.3 x 99.1 cm, Annonciade Museum, Saint Tropez Source Date 1911 Author Kees van Dongen. Permission (Reusing this file) This photograph is in the public domain in the United States because it was first published outside of the U.S. before 1923
Woman with Cat is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch-French Fauve painter Kees van Dongen, from 1908. It depicts a woman holding a black cat on her arms. Van Dongen uses complementary colors of red and green for shocking effect. [1] The painting was purchased in 1961 by Margaret and Harry Lynde Bradley from Sammy Chalom Royale Décoration in ...
File: Kees van Dongen, c.1907-08, The Dancer Anita, oil on canvas, 130.5 x 97 cm, National Gallery of Denmark.jpg
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Kees van Dongen, 1911, Lucie and her Dance-Partner (Lucie et son danseur), oil on canvas, 130 x 96.5 cm, Hermitage Museum. Source ArtHermitage. Date 1911 Author Kees van Dongen. Permission (Reusing this file) This image is in the public domain in the United States because it was first published outside of the U.S. before 1923
His wife, Georgette Agutte, an artist associated with the Fauves, had exhibited from 1904 at the Salon des Indépendants and participated in the founding of the Salon d'Automne (her art collection included works by Derain, Matisse, Marquet, Rouault, Vlaminck, Van Dongen, and Signac).
The exhibition was well received by L'Esquella de la Torratxa, 14 January 1916, and the magazine Themis, by Vilanova i la Geltrú, 5 January, in which J.F. Ràfols wrote a detailed account of van Dongen work, although not without some reticence, as he described a "believer exceeded by the artificiality of the type of woman, make-up and ...