Collecting guide: Kees van Dongen
After moving to Paris in his early twenties, the Dutchman fought wrestlers in the circus, became friends with Picasso and experimented with Impressionism. It is for his association with the Fauves, however, and his portraits of women who inhabited the demi-monde of Montmartre, that he is perhaps best known
Kees van Dongen as a young man, circa 1902. Photo: PVDE / Bridgeman Images