Marthe Donas Prints – Cubist Vessels, Fruit & Layered Space
Marthe Donas prints retain the outlines of familiar objects within layered geometric arrangements. A bottle or pitcher can be recognised through the overlapping planes, while fruit provides rounded accents among straighter edges. Explore these still lifes alongside Cubist art, geometric prints and still life painting.
A green vessel among patterned planes
Still Life with Bottle and Cup sets the curved bottle against overlapping red, blue and grey forms. Decorative marks and fine parallel lines distinguish several surfaces. The object’s tall outline anchors the arrangement while the surrounding shapes make table and background part of one closely constructed pictorial space.
An outline interrupted by angled colour
Still Life with Profile of Pitcher combines a tall vessel shape with dark, pale and yellow planes. Narrow curved lines echo the pitcher’s profile within the lower arrangement. The upright composition leaves the object recognisable while shifting its edges between adjoining areas rather than describing one uninterrupted surface.
Rounded accents among bright diagonals
Still Life with Fruit places yellow fruit and vessel-like forms within a vertical pattern of green, red, white and blue. Dark edges separate some areas, while others overlap more softly. The small round shapes provide stable points within a construction dominated by sloping planes and intersecting colour.
Related artists and collections
Compare constructed objects in Juan Gris, layered still lifes in Louis Marcoussis and geometric colour in Georges Valmier. Further Cubist prints extends the shifting viewpoints, while still life art follows the familiar vessels and fruit beneath the abstract arrangements.
Read more in our guide to Cubism.