Marthe Donas
Je viens de découvrir cette artiste via l’excellent fil twitter ▻https://twitter.com/womensart1 animé par le non moins excellent fil twitter ▻https://twitter.com/PL_Henderson1et son site ►https://womensartblog.wordpress.com
... et je me demande comment j’ai fait pour passer à côté de ces merveilles alors que j’arpente tous les musées du monde à chaque occasion de voyage (enfin, dans le monde d’avant). C’est juste magnifique.
The Belgian artist Marthe Donas, who is gradually being rediscovered internationally, shot to fame in the years around 1920. Her paintings and collages – enigmatically signed ‘Tour Donas’ – hung at the time alongside the leading names of the avant-garde in London, Geneva, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels and Rome and in exhibitions that toured the United States. It was via Paris rather than Belgium, however, that she came to be part of an international artistic network that sprang back into life after the First World War and included key figures like Alexander Archipenko, Amedeo Modigliani, Albert Gleizes, Nathalia Goncharova, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Herwarth Walden and Enrico Prampolini, …