Maurice Denis. Dreamed happiness.
Reunion National Museums editions
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| N° d'inventaire | 24091 |
| Format | 21.5 x 27.5 |
| Détails | 160 p., 120 color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711875450 |
Painter, decorator, and engraver, Maurice Denis (1870-1943) was a multi-talented artist. Known for his involvement in the Nabis group, he brilliantly theorized the aesthetic revolution led by such major artists as Sérusier, Bonnard, and Vuillard.
His own painting, symbolist then synthetic before tending towards classicism, gives pride of place to religious themes, landscapes of Italy and Brittany as well as family scenes. For Maurice Denis's private life, passionate and fascinating, is inextricably linked to his art.
It revolves around one town in particular: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where he lived all his life and where he bought the Priory - a family home and workshop that became the museum that bears his name.
This richly illustrated catalogue invites you to delve into the heart of this place, to discover the masterpieces created there and to meet the "Nabi of beautiful icons": a man who sought to reconcile decorative ambition and the demand for constantly renewed content, linked to his Catholic faith, to the description of modern life or to a very personal iconography.
This work thus provides a formidable introduction to an essential painter and accompanies a triple anniversary: the 40th anniversary of the Maurice Denis Departmental Museum, the reopening of this museum after 2 years of work and the 150th anniversary of the painter!
Exhibition catalog at the Maurice Denis Departmental Museum
Reopening after work in September 2021
His own painting, symbolist then synthetic before tending towards classicism, gives pride of place to religious themes, landscapes of Italy and Brittany as well as family scenes. For Maurice Denis's private life, passionate and fascinating, is inextricably linked to his art.
It revolves around one town in particular: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where he lived all his life and where he bought the Priory - a family home and workshop that became the museum that bears his name.
This richly illustrated catalogue invites you to delve into the heart of this place, to discover the masterpieces created there and to meet the "Nabi of beautiful icons": a man who sought to reconcile decorative ambition and the demand for constantly renewed content, linked to his Catholic faith, to the description of modern life or to a very personal iconography.
This work thus provides a formidable introduction to an essential painter and accompanies a triple anniversary: the 40th anniversary of the Maurice Denis Departmental Museum, the reopening of this museum after 2 years of work and the 150th anniversary of the painter!
Exhibition catalog at the Maurice Denis Departmental Museum
Reopening after work in September 2021
His own painting, symbolist then synthetic before tending towards classicism, gives pride of place to religious themes, landscapes of Italy and Brittany as well as family scenes. For Maurice Denis's private life, passionate and fascinating, is inextricably linked to his art.
It revolves around one town in particular: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where he lived all his life and where he bought the Priory - a family home and workshop that became the museum that bears his name.
This richly illustrated catalogue invites you to delve into the heart of this place, to discover the masterpieces created there and to meet the "Nabi of beautiful icons": a man who sought to reconcile decorative ambition and the demand for constantly renewed content, linked to his Catholic faith, to the description of modern life or to a very personal iconography.
This work thus provides a formidable introduction to an essential painter and accompanies a triple anniversary: the 40th anniversary of the Maurice Denis Departmental Museum, the reopening of this museum after 2 years of work and the 150th anniversary of the painter!
Exhibition catalog at the Maurice Denis Departmental Museum
Reopening after work in September 2021