Design for a Fan: the Engagement Party of Yvonne Lerolle (recto)
Maurice Denis
1898
Medium
graphite and pastel with watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 32.1 x 49.2 cm (12 5/8 x 19 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Helen Porter and James T. Dyke Fund
Accession Number
2010.33.1.a
About the Artist
Maurice Denis · 1870–1943
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) was a French painter, writer, and art theorist who became a founding member and principal theorist of the Nabis, a group of Post-Impressionist artists working in Paris in the 1890s. Born in Granville, Normandy, he studied at the Académie Julian, where he met Paul Sérusier, Pierre Bonnard, and Édouard Vuillard, the future core of the Nabi group. Denis is perhaps best reme...