. . The modern collection of paintings has a variety of portraits that van Buuren particularly appreciated. As a past time he attended The Art Academy of Antwerpen and knew personally painters such as Kees van Dongen, or C. Permeke, from whom he bought paintings. " Woman Thinking " by K.Van Dongen is the portrait of the painter's wife, and it sensual qualities make it comparable to the " Red Ballerina " (1907-1908), an oil painting at the Hermitage Museum of Saint-Petersburg. .			.
		Detail of carpet " Futurist painting " by Jaap Gidding, around 1915. This designer of the Amsterdam School uses different creative skills, and made stained-glass windows as well as several carpets of the house, finding his inspiration in the undulating shape and the vivid colours of the young lady painted by Van Dongen, following the idea of Matisse and the Fauvists.
	Kees van Dongen "Woman thinking " oil (around 1906-1907).