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Kees Van Dongen
Races at Deauville, ca 1950s
By the middle of the 20th century, van Dongen had become a well-established artist whose portraits were very popular with French high society. He also traveled to many fashionable race-courses, including the one at the seaside resort town of Deauville, where races were originally run on the wide beach. Van Dongen depicts the scene in his characteristic style of bright, flat colors and loosely painted figures. |