Kees Van Dongen and Flamboyant Elegance

Lecture by Véronique Borboen, costume designer and professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
Wednesday, February 4 at 6 PM in English
le mecredi, janvier 28 à 18h en français
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium
Level S1
Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion
Admission Free

Following in the footsteps of Van Dongen, an observer who loved women, this lecture will explore fashion from the Belle Époque to the Roaring Twenties. Van Dongens’s unique role as a Fauve portraitiste will serve to shed light on the evolution of adornment and body image.