Kees van Dongen

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and on our street festival, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from January 24 to April 19 held exhibition of the artist Kees van Dogena, 200 works

Van Dogen studied painting at the Rotterdam School of Fine Arts and the School of Applied Arts. After moving to Paris in 1900, he received French citizenship in 1929, and died in Monaco in 1968

In the years 1905-1906 van Dogen became friends with Camille Pissarro, although it was not so much fascinated by Impressionism, but still occasionally went with Pizarro in the Circus Medrano, where did sketches of clowns and acrobats.
1. Peasants in the Countryside
2. Spring
3. Champs Elysees

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In these same years he exhibited his paintings in the Salon d'Automne with such artists as Dera, Vlamik, Friesz, Marquet, Rouault, and where the word Fauvism went down in history of art. Paintings van Dogena shocked viewers: it is usually portrayed representatives of the social floor and did so defiantly, a poster, throw.
In 1913, one of the works of Van Dogena, large picture of a naked woman, was torn from the wall of the police (other istochnikam it was an accident, the film struck, she fell off).
4. Femme Fatale, 1905
5. Anita ou la Gitane Apprivoisee
6. Josephine Baker
7. La Valse Chaloupée 1906
8. Nude 1907
9. Woman with a Large Hat 1906

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Over the years, the artist began to paint portraits of high society, his paintings have become more sophisticated and less provocative. One well-known paintings by Brigitte Bardot in 1954.

Woman in Black
Portrait of Cosmo Sotero