Olga's Gallery
Maurice Denis
(1870 -1943)
Biography
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Maurice Denis received a classical education in the Lycée Condorcet where he met Vuillard, Roussel and Lugné-Poë. While studying in the Lycée he took drawing lessons and copied paintings by the old masters. In 1888 he enrolled at the Académie Julian and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In the same year Paul Sérusier showed his friends at the Académie Julian the famous landscape, which he had painted at the suggestion of Gauguin at Pont-Aven and which, for this reason, was considered a "talisman" of Gauguin's doctrine of Synthetism. Read Maurice Denis's Full Biography
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The Road to Calvary/Montée au calvaire ou Le Calvaire. 1889. Oil on canvas. 41 x 32.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note. 
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The Offertory at Calvary/Offrande au Calvaire. c.1890. Oil on canvas. 32 x 23.5 cm. Private collection. Read Note.
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Spots of Sunlight on the Terrace/Taches de soleil sur la terrasse. 1890. Oil on cardboard. 24 x 20.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Easter Morning or Easter Mystery/Matin de Pàques ou Le Mystère de Pâques. 1891. Oil on canvas. 104 x 102 cm. Private collection.
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Soir trinitaire. 1891. Oil on canvas. 105 x 72 cm. Private collection.
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The Two Sisters/Les Deux Soeurs. 1891. 40.5 x 32.5 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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The Seasons Series: September or September Evening/Cycle des saisons: September ou Soir de septembre. 1891. Oil on canvas. 38 x 61 cm. Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France.
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The Seasons Series: April/Cycle des saisons: Avril. 1892. 37.5 x 61 cm. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands.
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Beauty in the Autumn Wood/Belle au Bois d'automne. 1892. Oil on canvas. 25.3 x 44.2 cm. Private collection.
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The Sleeper or Young Girl Asleep/La Dormeuse ou Jeune Fille endormie. 1892. Oil on canvas. 38 x 61 cm. Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France.
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Triple Portrait of Marthe/Triple Portrait de Marthe fiancée. 1892. Oil on canvas. 37 x 45 cm. Musée Départemental du Prieuré, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
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Mystic Allegory or Tea / Allégorie mystique ou Le Thé. 1892. Oil on canvas. 46 x 55 cm. Private collection.
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Ladder in the Leaves or Poetic Arabesques used for the Decoration of a Ceiling/L'Echelle dans le feuillage ou Arabesques poétiques pour la décoration d'un plafond. 1892. Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard. Musée Départemental du Prieuré, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
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Regata at Perros/Régates à Perros. c.1892. Oil on canvas. 41 x 32 cm. Private collection.
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The Muses/Les Muses. 1893. Oil on canvas. 171.5 x 137.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Green Trees or the Beeches of Kerduel/Les Arbres verts ou Les Hêtres de Kerduel. 1893. Oil on canvas. 46 x 43 cm. Private collection.
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Jacob's Battle with the Angel/Lutte de Jacob avec l'Ange. c.1893. Oil on canvas. 48 x 36 cm. Private collection.
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