Still Life with Bottle and Cup

Artist: Marthe Donas (Belgian, 1885–1967)

1917

Modern and Contemporary Art

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Collage of lace, sandpaper, cloth, netting, and paint on composition board

Dimensions

20 7/8 × 15 3/16 in. (53 × 38.6 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.429

Culture

Belgian

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
The artist, Paris; sold through Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, to Katherine S. Dreier (1887–1952), New York, October 1922; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1941
Bibliography
  • Joanna Fiduccia, "Marthe Donas’s Tactility," in "The Société Anonyme at 100," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2020–21), 56–58, 60–61, cover ill., fig. 1, 3
  • Jenny Anger, "Marthe Donas: Between Der Sturm and the Société Anonyme," in "The Société Anonyme at 100," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2020–21), 39–40, cover ill., fig. 2
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 164, fig. 11
  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 197, no. 198, ill
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 18, ill
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre), still lifes

Subject

Women artists

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso "1917"

Signed

Signed l.r. "Tour Donas"

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