La Terrasse (The Terrace) from Essai dur l'histoire de la lithographie en France. Les Peintures lithographes de Manet à Matisse. Album de lithographies originales.

La Terrasse (The Terrace) from Essai dur l'histoire de la lithographie en France. Les Peintures lithographes de Manet à Matisse. Album de lithographies originales.

Maurice DenisWW-1923-M055358
1923·Lithograph from a portfolio of 16 lithographs·composition: 6 11/16 × 9 5/8" (17 × 24.4 cm); sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 3/8" (27.6 × 36.5 cm)

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Year
1923
Dimensions
composition: 6 11/16 × 9 5/8" (17 × 24.4 cm); sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 3/8" (27.6 × 36.5 cm)

Artist

Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis

Printmaking

Maurice Denis (1870, 1943) was a French painter and theorist who pioneered the Symbolist movement and helped establish the Nabis, a group of Post-Impressionist artists working in the 1890s. He developed a distinctive approach to religious and decorative painting that emphasized flat color planes, rhythmic line, and spiritual content over naturalistic representation. Denis's theoretical writings, particularly his assertion that a painting is essentially a flat surface covered with colors, profoundly influenced modernist abstraction and design. His large-scale murals and easel works combined Byzantine and early Renaissance sources with contemporary formal innovation.

Granville, France

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Year
1923
Dimensions
composition: 6 11/16 × 9 5/8" (17 × 24.4 cm); sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 3/8" (27.6 × 36.5 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1923-M055358

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Artist

Maurice Denis

Maurice Denis

Printmaking

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