ROTTERDAM.- Painter, society artist and womanizer, Kees van Dongen painted the Parisian avant-garde nude or clothed. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a selection of sixty masterpaintings from international collections. His models dressed in the haute couture of Paul Poiret and still inspire fashion designers like Vera Wang and John Galliano. ‘All Eyes on Kees van Dongen’ showcases this stellar artist’s sophisticated eye and his ideal of beauty. This exhibition of the finest paintings by Kees van Dongen (1877 – 1968) opened in Rotterdam on 18 September. The works come from some of the world’s leading collections, from as far afield as New York, Geneva and Moscow. Many of the works featured are in private collections and are seldom if ever loaned out. In the nineteen-twenties, Rotterdam-born Kees van Dongen was already being followed by the world press. The artist cut a flamboyant figure in Pa