[2] In 1926, Dangar travelled to France with her lifelong friend and correspondent Grace Crowley and attended André Lhote's Academy in Paris and his summer school at Mirmande.

[3][4] Like her friends Dorrit Black and Grace Crowley, Dangar was strongly influenced by the Modernist and Cubist art movements she was exposed to in Paris.

[3] Dangar travelled back to France in 1930 and joined Moly-Sabata [fr], an artists' commune established by Albert Gleizes.

However, political instability and the outbreak of World War II caused her to cut the trip short and she was back in France in 1940.

[1] Dangar was commissioned in 1934 to create La Vierge et l'enfant Jesu [Virgin and infant Jesus] first acquired by Cesar Geoffray and more recently by the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art[3] The work has been identified as a good example of rustic cubism.