Life Becomes Precious, Discreet, plate eleven from Love
Maurice Denis
1898, published 1899
Medium
Lithograph in yellow, green, pale pink, and gray on light ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 28.5 × 40.7 cm (11 1/4 × 16 1/16 in.); Sheet: 53.3 × 40.7 cm (21 × 16 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
117208
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...