Kees van Dongen, 1877 - 1968
NU DEBOUT SUR FOND VERT ET ROSE/
NUDE STANDING ON GREEN BACKGROUND AND PINK, c.1935
Oil on canvas
65 x 50 cm; 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.
Private collection
Cornelis Theodorus Maria 'Kees' van Dongen (26 January
1877 – 28 May 1968) was a Dutch-French painter and one of the
Fauves at the controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition. He gained a
reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits.
Kees van
Dongen was born in Delfshaven, a borough of Rotterdam. He was the second of
four children in a middle-class family. In 1892, at age 16, Kees van Dongen
started his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam During this
period (1892–97), van Dongen frequented the Red Quarter seaport area, where he
drew scenes of sailors and prostitutes. He met Augusta Preitinger at the
Academy, a fellow painter.
Kees van Dongen, 1877 - 1968
NU DEBOUT SUR FOND VERT ET ROSE/
NUDE STANDING ON GREEN BACKGROUND AND PINK, c.1935
Oil on canvas
65 x 50 cm; 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.
Private collection
In 1897,
van Dongen lived in Paris for several months, where there was a large emigre
community. Van Dongen began to exhibit in Paris, and participated in the
controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition[4] along with Henri Matisse,
André Derain, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Charles Camoin, and Jean
Puy.
Van Dongen’s candid, colourful portrait style was immensely
fashionable by the end of World War I, and thereafter it remained his main
focus. The figure of a glamorous woman with large eyes and red lips became his
archetype. More
on Kees van Dongen
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