Kees van Dongen - Van Dongen - 2004

Exhibition catalogue Hazan editions: There does not exist a substantial monographic work on Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968). The retrospective organized jointly by the Nouveau musée national de Monaco, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, and the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam is an opportunity to update our knowledge of the work of this Dutchman who came to Paris in 1897 and settled in Montmartre where he lived, among others, at the Bateau-Lavoir, thanks to his talents as an illustrator in the style of Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec. His painting, related to that of the Nabis, evolves toward Fauvism from the creation of this movement in 1905. His raw realism, his palette of rare violence using black contours, is not without sometimes evoking the manner of German Expressionists. After the First World War he evolves toward a more decorative painting that will make him one of the most cosmopolitan painters of the 1920s and 1930s.

Some minor defects on the cover visible in the photos, interior impeccable. Some freckles on the edge.
Note the presence of the museum's visitor information booklet.

Rare Exhibition Catalogue:

Van Dongen. Works on paper from the Rudolf Engers collection (soft)
Collectif; PAPIN-DRASTIK, Ivonne

Edited by Musée de Cognac, 2004

Very nice condition.