MONTREAL, QUE – The exhibition Van Dongen – A Fauve in the City, presented from January 22 to April 19, 2009 at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts is the first major retrospective of the work of Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) in North America. The exhibition, which brings together some 200 works, including over a hundred paintings, forty rare drawings, prints and other archival documents and photographs as well as for the first time, a dozen Fauvist ceramics, will illustrate the influential role Van Dongen played in the early twentieth century as the only portraitist among the Fauves.