Portrait of Commandant Edouard Requin - Kees van Dongen, 20st century

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Price

€ 75.000 till € 100.000

Status

Available

Artist

Kees Dongen
Netherlands 1877 - 1968 France
Artist biography

Period

20st century

Signature

Lower left

Material

Oil on canvas

Description

on the reversside: "je soussignée, Nancy Sparey Poisson, certifie que la peinture ci-contre a été fait en 1916 par Kees van Dongen et représente le portrait de mon oncle, le commandant Edouard Requin.

Signature : en bas à gauche

Cornelis Theodorus Maria “Kees” van Dongen was born in Delfshaven (now part of the municipality of Rotterdam) and died in Monaco in 1968. He was a pupil of the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Art. He was a painter as well as a sculpter and ceramist. Kees van Dongen made oilpaintings, watercolours, pastels, drawings and lithographs. Above all Van Dongen became famous for his portraits and female nudes, but he was equally admired for his paintings of landscapes, townviews and flowers. Kees van Dongen was a vivid colorist. He lived and worked in Delfshaven until 1897 when he left for Paris. He became French citizen, lived mainly in Paris but frequented Monaco where he lived later in life and where he died. His work was exhibited many times all over the world. Many of his paintings are in various museums world wide or privately owned.