Maurice Denis
1870-1943
French
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French painter, designer, printmaker and theorist. Although born in Normandy, Denis lived throughout his life in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, just west of Paris. He attended the Lycee Condorcet, Paris, where he met many of his future artistic contemporaries, then studied art simultaneously at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Academie Julian (1888-90). Through fellow student Paul Serusier, in 1888 he learnt of the innovative stylistic discoveries made that summer in Pont-Aven by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard. With Serusier and a number of like-minded contemporaries at the Academie Julian Related Paintings of Maurice Denis :. | Eurydice | sunlight on the terrace | The Muses (mk09) | The Muses in the Sacred Wood (mk19) | Breton Women | Related Artists: Georg Emanuel Opiz1775 - 1841 George Copeland AultAmerican, 1891-1948 Jean Urbain GuerinFrench, 1760-1836
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