France - Deauville Normandie (Normandy) - Le Bar du Soleil (The Sunshine Bar) - Vintage Travel Poster by Kees Van Dongen c.1960 - Fine Art Matte Paper Print (Unframed) 24x32in

Enjoy a taste of Aloha with these beautiful Fine Art Prints by Pacifica Island Art - printed in Maui, Hawaii. This print will look wonderful framed in the home, office or restaurant and is perfect for the Vintage Art Collector. - ABOUT THE ARTIST - Kees Van Dongen - Cornelis Theodorus Maria 'Kees' van Dongen ( 1877–1968) 'Kees' Van Dongen was a Dutch-French painter. In 1892, at age 16, Kees van Dongen started his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam. In 1897, van Dongen moved to Paris, where there was a large emigre community. He began to exhibit there, and participated in the controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition along with Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Charles Camoin, and Jean Puy. The bright colours of this group of artists led to them being called Fauves ('Wild Beasts') by art critic Louis Vauxcelles. Van Dongen was also briefly a member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke. In later years he became part of an avant-garde wave of painters, including Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon Friesz, Henri Rousseau, Robert Delaunay, Albert Marquet, Édouard Vuillard, who aspired to a renewal of painting which they thought was stuck in neo-impressionism. From 1959 onwards, Kees van Dongen lived in Monaco. He died in his home in Monte Carlo in 1968. An extensive collection of van Dongen's work is held by the New National Museum of Monaco.