Jeune fille aux cheveux blonds (Young Girl with Blonde Hair), pl. 1, from Femmes
A bold lithograph by the Dutch-French Fauvist Kees van Dongen, this work depicts a young blonde woman rendered with the artist's characteristic expressive economy of line and seductive elegance. Printed in black and pink, the limited palette amplifies the sensual tension between the figure's delicate femininity and van Dongen's confident, almost graphic mark-making. The piece originates from his *Femmes* series, in which van Dongen celebrated the modern woman through a distinctly glamorous and psychologically charged lens.
- Medium
- Lithograph in black and pink, on wove paper, with full margins,
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Evening & Day Editions
June 12, 2014
Artists in conversation
Henri Matisse
French · b. 1869
Matisse shared van Dongen's Fauvist sensibility and applied bold expressive line work to portraits of women with a similarly reduced yet seductive palette, capturing feminine elegance through confident graphic economy rather than detailed realism.
Jules Pascin
Bulgarian-American · b. 1885
Pascin created lithographs and drawings of modern women with a similarly fluid and sensual line quality, focusing on the glamorous and intimate feminine figure using restrained tonal palettes that mirror van Dongen's elegant graphic approach in this Femmes series work.
Raphael Kirchner
Austrian · b. 1875
Kirchner produced fashionable and seductive portraits of modern women using limited color printing with bold outlines and a glamorous decorative quality that closely parallels van Dongen's treatment of femininity in this pink and black lithograph.
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