Editing Kees van Dongen (section)

== Marriage and family ==
He returned to join [[Augusta Preitinger]] ("Guus"), whom he had met at the Academy. They married on 11 July 1901. They had two children together: a son died a couple of days after birth in December 1901; their daughter Augusta, called "Dolly", was born 18 April 1905. Around that time, Van Dongen produced a painting of [[Fernande Olivier]], which was the reason why — according to [[Gertrude Stein]] in her 1933 book ''[[The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]]'' — he ''broke into notoriety''. Apparently, according to Stein:
{{blockquote|Van Dongen did not admit that this picture was a portrait of Fernande, although she had sat for it and there was in consequence much bitterness. Van Dongen in these days was poor, he had a dutch wife who was a vegetarian and they lived on spinach. Van Dongen frequently escaped from the spinach to a joint in Montmartre where the girls paid for his dinner and his drinks.<ref name="ebooks.adelaide.edu.au">Stein, Gertrude. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120404050640/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stein/gertrude/toklas/chapter2.html The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas] '', Chapter 2.</ref>}}

Guus took Dolly to see their families in Rotterdam in the summer of 1914, where they were caught by the outbreak of [[World War I]]. They were not able to return to Paris until 1918. Preitinger and Van Dongen divorced in 1921.<ref name=rkd>{{cite web|url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/23705|title=Guus Preitinger |publisher= Rijksbureau voor Kunsthorische Documentatie |access-date=1 February 2013}}</ref>

In 1917, Van Dongen had become involved with a married socialite, the fashion director [[Léa Alvin]], also known as Jasmy Jacob. Their relationship lasted until 1927.<ref>Clement (1994), p. 470</ref>