Attitudes are Easy and Chaste
Medium
color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 38.5 × 27.5 cm · sheet: 52.8 × 40.8 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust and partial gift of Stephen Dull
Accession Number
2021.170.3
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
Maurice Denis belonged to the Nabis, a group of artists who came together in 1889 to pursue a radical new style informed by subjective experience and emotion. This print is from a series in which Denis explored his devotion to his wife, Marthe, by depicting her in a variety of settings alongside titles drawn from his own journal. The vague but evocative images were meant to encourage the viewer to draw connections to the theme and meditate on its meaning.