The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Dongen, Kees van
(ks vän dông´n) (KEY) , 18771968, Dutch painter who worked in Paris. After moving to Paris in 1897, he met Matisse and became an exponent of fauvism eight years later. A precocious technician, he produced brilliant figure studies and portraits but soon left the movement to become a fashionable portraitist.