Danseuse

Details

Marthe Tour-Donas (1885-1967)
Danseuse
signed 'Tour Donas' (lower right); signed, numbered and inscribed ‘Danseuse par Tour Donas no. 34’ (on the reverse)
oil on board
23 ½ x 9 in. (59.5 x 22.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1918-1919

Provenance

Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, by 1921.
Private collection, Germany, circa 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owners.

Literature

P.J.H., Paweuls, Marthe Donas: A Woman Artist in the Avant-Garde, London, 2016, p. 111 (illustrated in situ).

Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Albert Gleizes, Paris, Jacques Villon, Paris, Louis Marcoussis, Paris, Jules Evola, Rom, Tour Donas, Antwerpen, Sonja Delaunay-Terk: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, January 1921, no. 95.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, L'altra metà dell'Avanguardia, 1910-1940, February - May 1980; this exhibition later travelled to Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, July - August 1980, and Stockholm, Kulturhuset, February - May 1981.
Brussels, Musée d'Art Moderne, Avant-Garde au Belgique 1917-1929, September - December 1992, no. 51.

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Please note the additional cataloguing for this work: 'signed, numbered and inscribed ‘Danseuse par Tour Donas no. 34’ (on the reverse)'.