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.
1891. Oil on canvas. 38 x 61 cm. Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France.
1892. Oil on canvas. 46 x 55 cm. Private collection.
c.1899. Oil on cardboard. 39 x 46.5 cm. Private collection.
1890s. Oil on canvas. 46.5 x 39 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1908. Oil on canvas. 394 x 269.5 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1908. Oil on canvas. 200 x 275 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1908. Oil on canvas. 399 x 273 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1892. Oil on canvas. 37 x 45 cm. Musée Départemental du Prieuré, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
1890. Oil on cardboard. 24 x 20.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
1891. Oil on canvas. 104 x 102 cm. Private collection.
1891. Oil on canvas. 105 x 72 cm. Private collection.
1892. 37.5 x 61 cm. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands.
1892. Oil on canvas. 25.3 x 44.2 cm. Private collection.
c.1892. Oil on canvas. 41 x 32 cm. Private collection.
1893. Oil on canvas. 171.5 x 137.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
c.1893. Oil on canvas. 48 x 36 cm. Private collection.
1896. Oil on canvas. 77 x 116 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1890s. Oil on cardboard. 37 x 32 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1905. Oil on cardboard. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1906-7. Oil on canvas. 81 x 116 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
French Painting. From the Hermitage, Leningrad. Mid 19th to early 20th century. Aurora 1987.
Symbolism in Painting. By V. Kruchkova. Moscow. 1994.
Four French Symbolists: A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis. by Russell T. Clement (Author). Greenwood Publishing Group. 1996.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Modern Art. By Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, Daniel Wheeler. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY. 2000.
Maurice Denis: Catalog Raisonne of the Graphic Work by Pierre Cailler. Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2000.