The Voyage of Urien (Le Voyage d'Urien)
Maurice Denis
1893
Medium
Book with thirty color lithographs on cream laid paper and one woodcut in black on the cover
Dimensions
20.3 × 19.2 × 1.5 cm (8 × 7 9/16 × 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
153598
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...