From 25 March to 17 July 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris is dedicating a retrospective to the Dutch painter, Kees Van Dongen, who took French nationality in 1929.

The exhibition follows on from and adds to the one that took place from 18 September 2010 to 23 January 2011 at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (All eyes on Kees Van Dongen). It highlights the artist’s Parisian period between the “Belle Epoque” and the Roaring Twenties.

Van Dongen, Fauvist, anarchist and man of society: we discover all three aspects through the paintings, drawings and ceramics on show at the exhibition.

- “Fauvist”, as Van Dongen preferred to use warm colours and was at the origin of the Fauvist movement.

- “Anarchist”, as this was the political group that he became close to in the 1890s.

- “Man of society”, as he lived among the Parisian elite of the 1920s.

See the Kees Van Dongen postcards.

See the Kees Van Dongen prints.