Maurice Denis, Nude, Nymph Crowned with Daisys, 1899, Color Lithograph, Framed

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Maurice Denis

Granville 1870 - 1943 Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Court Nymph of Pasquerettes, 1899

Color lithograph on laid paper

Signed in pencil … Read more Maurice Denis

Granville 1870 - 1943 Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Court Nymph of Pasquerettes, 1899

Color lithograph on laid paper

Signed in pencil lower right

Size: 56 x 44 cm
Frame: 78 x 67 cm

Good original condition, two small stains

Catalogue Raisonné Caill 121

This color lithograph appeared in the portfolio "Germinal" in an edition of 100 copies, published by "La Maison moderne" in Paris, compiled by Julius Meier-Graefe.

The title "Germinal" was intended to suggest that the portfolio contained the seeds that would profoundly influence art in the coming 20th century.

Viewing and collection by prior arrangement are welcome.

Authenticity will be confirmed in writing.

Maurice Denis was born the son of a railway official. In 1871, the family moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1888, he attended the Académie Julian in Paris, where Paul Sérusier introduced him to the painting style of the Pont-Aven School. In 1890, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon (with the painting "The Choirboy") and published his first theoretical article in the journal Art et Critique. He was a founding member of the artists' group Les Nabis, along with Pierre Bonnard, Paul Sérusier, and Édouard Vuillard; he shared a studio with Bonnard and Vuillard. In 1891, he participated in the Nabis exhibition at the Galerie Le Barc de Boutteville. Denis is considered the most important theorist of this group.


[The sentence about the Nabis is incomplete in the original text.] During his travels in Italy between 1890 and 1895, he studied Renaissance works, particularly those of Piero della Francesca. In 1903, Ambroise Vollard published his 216 woodcuts depicting the imitation of Christ, and in 1911, he illustrated the edition of Paul Verlaine's Sagesse. Further travels followed, including trips to Moscow (1909), Algeria and Tunisia (1921), Palestine and Greece (1924), and the United States and Canada (1927).

His students included the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka and the British-Italian painter Daphne Maugham-Casorati.

Denis created paintings with simple forms, gently curving lines, and pale colors. His works include murals, panel paintings, prints, and book illustrations. from 1919 onward, he focused primarily on reviving religious art and, together with Georges Desvallières (1861–1950), founded the Ateliers d’art sacré. In 1920, he created the altar mosaic in the basilica of Saint-Maurice Abbey in the Swiss canton of Valais. It depicts the Coronation of Saint Maurice. from 1932, Denis was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, succeeding Jean-Louis Forain.

In 1937, during the Nazi campaign against "degenerate art," his color lithographs *Girl in Front of Blossoming Chestnut Trees* and *Ce fut un religieux mystère* were confiscated from the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Both prints were sold on the art market to the art dealers Hildebrand Gurlitt and Bernhard A. Böhmer, respectively. Their current whereabouts are unknown.

Maurice Denis died in 1943 as a result of a car accident. This piece has an attribution mark,
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