
Kees van Dongen
Woman on the Beach, Trouville (Femme Sur la Plage, Trouville), 1966

Paper size: 75 x 55 cm (29.5 x 21.6 in)
Image size: 51.5 x 44 cm (20.3 x 17.3 in)
This subject was …

With his emotionally complex paintings of the European upper class, Kees van Dongen helped expand and modernize the previously conventional genre of portraiture. Van Dongen was formatively influenced by his early involvement with Henri Matisse and the Fauves, and would retain a bold sense of color throughout his career. Van Dongen later joined the German artistic group Die Brucke, working with prominent Expressionist painters Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, and Max Pechstein, amongst others, and engaging with themes including Primitivism and existential philosophy.


Paper size: 75 x 55 cm (29.5 x 21.6 in)
Image size: 51.5 x 44 cm (20.3 x 17.3 in)
This subject was also used for a poster to accompany for Trouville-sur-Mer in Normandy “Salons de l’Hotel de Ville, Trouville-sur-Mer, 1966”.
Excellent condition, minor staining along the extreme edge of the right sheet, visible only in …

With his emotionally complex paintings of the European upper class, Kees van Dongen helped expand and modernize the previously conventional genre of portraiture. Van Dongen was formatively influenced by his early involvement with Henri Matisse and the Fauves, and would retain a bold sense of color throughout his career. Van Dongen later joined the German artistic group Die Brucke, working with prominent Expressionist painters Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, and Max Pechstein, amongst others, and engaging with themes including Primitivism and existential philosophy.