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Van Dongen: Wild Beast, Anarchist and Socialite

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HOPMANS (Anita)
Van Dongen: Fauve, anarchist and socialite

Paris Museums. Paris 2011, paperback , Illustrated filled cover. Format in-4° (28 x 21.3 cm), 255 pages. 

  »Van Dongen’s work focuses on the image of women, faces painted and distorted by electric light are in some way his trademark. Through his use of color, Van Dongen remains the artificer of Fauvism. His travels to Morocco, Spain and Egypt in the early 1910s allowed him to reinvent a form of orientalism. But Paris remains the main subject of his painting: the popular verve and bohemian life of Montmartre (he met Picasso and Derain there), Montparnasse, before and after the war of 1914 of which he was one of the main animators. In the Paris of the “roaring twenties” which Van Dongen describes as the “cocktail period”, he devoted himself exclusively to the new Parisian elite: men and women of letters, Stars of cinema and theater, now forgotten. The poses are outrageous, the costumes and theatrical accessories emphasizing the artificial nature of his personalities. The exhibition presents around 90 paintings, drawings and a group of ceramics, from 1895 to the early 1930s. It takes up in an expanded version the exhibition at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (All eyes on Kees VAn Dongen, September 18, 2010 – January 23, 2011). The catalog is both the sum of the latest research on the artist and a general public presentation of his work

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