Marthe Guillain - Artist Info

About Marthe Guillain

  • Biography

    Belgian painter Marthe Guillain was born in 1890. Marthe studied at Charleroi, then in Paris in the Cormon workshop. After the war, Guillain married Médard Maertens, and they exhibited together in Paris at the Salon des Independants. Back in Belgium in 1935, Marthe exhibited regularly at the Galerie Giroux in Brussels. Guillain then started to travel. With Fauvist accents and abstract lyricism Marthe Guillain resonates the enchanting atmosphere of the African continent for which it fascinates. Marthe used stylized human figures silhouetted against a tan background. You can see the influence of Kandinsky in Guillain's work.

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