Lot 410: MARTHE DONAS | Abstraction d'une statuette

oil on cardboard

43,7 x 43,7 cm; 16 7/8 x 16 7/8 in.

oil on cardboard

The board is stable. Examination under UV light reveals areas of fluorescence throughout the composition, most predominately to the beige-grey pigment, which does not appear to be related to any retouching. They are a few dots of paint loss in places, notably to the right part of the lower edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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Brussels, Galerie Eddy's Studio; Paris, Galerie Marguerite-Henry,  Le groupe L'Assaut, 1928
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, L'avant-Garde en Belgique 1917-1929, 1992, no. 56, illustrated in the catalogue p. 206

Peter J. H. Pauwels & Kristien Boon, Marthe Donas, A Woman Artist in the International Avant-Garde, Ghent, 2015, illustrated p. 218

Artist's studio, Ittre
Maurits and Suzanne Bilcke, Tervuren (acquired directly from the artist in 1961)
Henri-Jean Brouwers (1918-1994), Brussels (acquired from the above after 1961)
Thence by descent to the present owner