Essaie de bois gravé pour Sagesse
1895
Medium
paper
Dimensions
45; 376; 281; 56
About this artwork
De dichtbundel Sagesse (Wijsheid) van Paul Verlaine bevat gedichten met religieuze inhoud. Op dit blad zijn twee illustraties bij gedichten uit de bundel gedrukt (vergelijk RP-P-1967-1107). Verschenen in album met tien originele prenten als supplement bij tijdschrift: L'Epreuve, juli 1895, prent nr. 4
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...