Kees van Dongen was a Dutch-born painter who lived much of his life in France. With his work, he was one of the most important Dutch representatives of fauvism (expressionist style).
The image is a pochoir print. A pochoir print uses several templates. The color separation is manually cut from the template for each color. One by one, the colors are applied with the brush. Many 20th-century artists (Van Dongen, Picasso, Matisse) used this technique to reproduce their favorite works. The pochoir best approximated the original, it was felt.
- image: from the book of Dongen by Edmond des Courières (1925), a lavishly illustrated monograph on the artist. The original protective sheet is attached to the pochoir for protection
- year: 1925
- quality: excellent
- signed: no
- image size: 20.5 x 15.5 cm | 8.1 x 6.1 in (h x w)
- sheet or frame size: 25.8 x 19.8 cm | 10.2 x 7.8 in (h x w)
