Laura Gascoigne

Why is the smoky, febrile art of Marcelle Hanselaar so little known?

Her work is in the collections of the Ashmolean and Metropolitan Museum, New York, yet her powerful paintings and etchings remain under the radar

Howl of protest: ‘The Crying Game 4: Remnants of Civilization 1’, 2015, by Marcelle Hanselaar
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