– Note: this is not the actual book, when ordering this product, you receive a printed version of the English translation.

Kees van Dongen was one of a vanguard of Dutch artist who moved to Paris around 1900 in search of artistic innovation. Once established in Paris, he became a member of the avant-garde. In 1905 Picasso invited him to take a studio at the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre. In this environment, he evolved into a painter of figures, and subsequently an innovator in terms of his use of colour and brushwork. Van Dongen specialist Anita Hopmans charts this process on the basis of a hundred key works and other highlights from his oeuvre.

How did the young van Dongen mangae to achieve artistic success in Paris, and rapidly become one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century? This is the central question addressed in this publication, which accompanies the exhibition ‘Kees van Dongen – The road to Success’ at Singer Laren.

– Author: Anita Hopmans, with foreword by Jan Rudolph de Lorm.

– Note: this is not the actual book, when ordering this product, you receive a printed version of the English translation.