In the catalogue of the Société Anonyme Collection, the society’s cofounder Katherine S. Dreier called Marthe Donas “the first woman abstract painter.” Although Dreier was not technically correct in her assessment, she clearly had been impressed by Donas’s own brand of Cubism, one that bore the stamp of Amédée Ozenfant’s and Le Corbusier’s Purism, a style in which familiar still-life objects such as vases or oranges are abstracted with architectural objectivity, rendering the everyday statuesque. Donas’s paintings are also remarkable for the artist’s luminous palette, which bears similarities to those of other Cubist painters in her Paris circle, such as Sonia Delaunay.