Word: dongen
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...room is Louis XV period, so must be the picture. Since many drawing rooms are modern, with Oriental motifs, many pictures are done in ultra-modernist style, all attention given to pose and expression, costumes indicated by a few strokes with oriental backgrounds. Fernand Goin, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Van Dongen are reported to be doing many portraits of this kind. "They have their sittings booked for months ahead, like fashionable dentists...