Record prices mark art sale boom Nov 6, 2009
4m) - roughly twice the pre-sale estimate - and for Kees Van Dongen, whose Jeune Arabe sold for $13. 8m (8. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Tubular belles Apr 28, 2009
WHEN three of Kees van Dongen s garish women sold in the same sale at Christie s for a combined total of over 8m ($11. 7m) in February 2008, the specialists at Sotheby s must have been gnashing their teeth. (The Economist)
An eye for the ladies Mar 2, 2009
In Montreal exhibit of Kees Van Dongen's paintings reveals, only rarelt does he reveal compassion for his subjects ... In the history of art, few artists have revealed their girl trouble more acutely than the Dutch-born Fauvist artist Kees Van Dongen, whose brilliantly coloured, boldly painted works are on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art ... Kees Van Dongens Portrait of a Cabaret Singer (1908) is hardly flattering: Fleshy bloated features are bright with synthetic colour and bad... (Globe and Mail)
A refreshing lucidity returns to art market Feb 7, 2009
Christie's Kees Van Dongen's "Woman with Two Necklaces" doubled the high estimate at 1 ... A different indication of the fundamental soundness of the market was provided as four portraits of prostitutes painted by Kees Van Dongen at the tail end of his Fauve period came up in a row. (International Herald Tribune)
Art.view: Phew! Feb 7, 2009
One, from France, consisted of four works by Kees van Dongen, including two gaudy semi-nudes, and a painting by Alexej von Jawlensky a bold work from the Russian-born German Expressionist s most fertile period, painted in reds and pinks of a dancer holding a fan. The other consignment, believed to have been made by a Turkish banker, was made up of six works, including two Monets, the beautifully discreet Promenade d Argenteuil , which sold for 3m at Christie s in 1998, but failed this week to... (The Economist)
