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Overlooked female modernist artist Marthe Donas dazzles in Belgium
['Jennifer Rankin']
The Guardian
As Tour Donas, Marthe enjoyed a brief but dazzling career, before falling into obscurity.
View image in fullscreen Het Prentenboek (The Picture Book) by Marthe Donas.
Photograph: Marthe Donas Foundation, Gent, 2025The show reveals a different side to modernism, neither shocking like Marcel Duchamp’s urinal nor stark like Kazimir Malevich’s black square.
View image in fullscreen Detail from Stilleven (Still Life), 1917, by Marthe Donas.
Before the revamp, the museum had only one of Donas’s works, which was not always on display.