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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records. LES PARISIENS AU BORD DE LA MER, SOIR Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Maurice Denis was born in Granville, France in 1870. He was a school friend of Vuillard and Roussel; also a friend of Bonnard and Serusier, whom he met at Academie Julian. He combined erudition with a sense of purity and refined sensibility, but unfortunately, he was less talented than his friends. He wrote some of the classic texts of modernistic painting, and he did so at a very early age.
He painted in light and clear colors, with flat planes and simplified forms. At the age of ninetee (showing 500 of 1291 characters). |
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