Nymph Crowned with Daisies
Maurice Denis
1899
Medium
Lithograph in pink, yellow, and blue on off-white wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
56 × 44.5 cm (22 1/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
116246
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...