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"tombstone": "Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory, 1894. Maurice Denis (French, 1870\u20131943). Oil on canvas glued to cardboard; unframed: 34.9 x 31.4 x 0.6 cm (13 3/4 x 12 3/8 x 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.109",
"current_location": "222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism",
"title": "Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory",
"creation_date": "1894",
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"measurements": "Unframed: 34.9 x 31.4 x 0.6 cm (13 3/4 x 12 3/8 x 1/4 in.)",
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"inscription": "Signed and dated lower left: MAVD 94, Signed lower right: MAVD",
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"id": 329533,
"title": "Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889\u20131900",
"description": "Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889\u20131900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022).",
"opening_date": "2021-07-01T04:00:00"
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"id": 396695,
"title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
"description": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).",
"opening_date": "2022-09-11T04:00:00"
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"description": "9\u00e8 exposition.Le Barc de Boutteville, Paris, France (1895).",
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"description": "La Libre Esth\u00e9tique. Brussels,Belgium (1896).",
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{
"description": "R\u00e9trospective Maurice Denis Union Centrale des Arts d\u00e9coratifs 1888-1924. Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, France (1924).",
"opening_date": "1924-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Galerie Louis Carr\u00e9, Paris, France (1941).",
"opening_date": "1941-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Maurice Denis. Mus\u00e9e d' Art Moderne, Paris, France (1945).",
"opening_date": "1945-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Maurice Denis. Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France (September 29-December 18, 1994); Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany (January 10-March 25, 1995); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom (April 21-June 18, 1995); Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands",
"opening_date": "1994-09-29T00:00:00"
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"description": "(June 22-September 17, 1995).",
"opening_date": "1995-06-22T00:00:00"
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"description": "Maurice Denis. Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Paris, France (October 31, 2006-January 21, 2007); Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Montr\u00e9al, Montreal, Quebec (February 22-May 20, 2007).",
"opening_date": "2007-02-22T00:00:00"
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"description": "Pierre Gu\u00e9guen [1889-1965] Paris, France, by gift from the artist",
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"[1] According to Maurice Denis, 1870-1943 (Paris: Re\u0301union des Muse\u0301es Nationaux, 1994), p. 182, cat. no. 56, Gu\u00e9guen received this painting as a gift from the artist while it was exhibited at the Galerie Carr\u00e9 \u2013 CDV no. 1640. It remained in Gu\u00e9guen\u2019s collection until at least 1945.
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"description": "Claude R. Cueto, Paris, France",
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"date": "after 1945\u20131987",
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{
"description": "Claude R. Cueto, December 22, 1987, sold to the Sam Josefowitz Family",
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"date": "1987",
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"description": "The Sam Josefowitz Family, New York, NY, April 2010, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley",
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"[2] According to documents in the curatorial file.
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"date": "1987\u20132010",
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"description": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "2010\u20132020",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"date": "2020\u2013",
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"did_you_know": "Denis began creating religious art in 1894, the year this painting was completed. A priory, as described in the title, is a religious building where monks and nuns live under the leadership of a prior.",
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"description": "This painting depicts the enclosed backyard garden of a former priory\u2014a religious building where monks and nuns live under the leadership of a prior\u2014that Maurice Denis purchased in 1914. He transformed the building into a home for his large family and lived there for the last 30 years of his life. A woman dressed in black hangs linens to dry, so that\u2014according to custom\u2014they will be bleached by moonlight. The full moon casts a golden glow over the entire nighttime scene.",
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"citation": "Maurice Denis, 1870-1943: Lyon, Muse\u0301e Des Beaux-Arts, 29 September-18 December 1994 : Cologne, Wallraf-Richarts Museum, 22 January-2 April 1995 : Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 21 April-18 June 1995 : Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 7 July-17 September 1995. Ghent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1994.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 182, no.56",
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"citation": "Heilbrun, Franc\u0327oise, Saskia Ooms, and Nathalie Bondil. Maurice Denis. Paris: Muse\u0301e d'Orsay, 2006.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 125-126, no. 11",
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"citation": "Sanchez, Pierre, and Dominique Lobstein. Les Expositions de la Galerie Le Barc de Boutteville (1891-1899) et du Salon des Cent (1894-1903): Re\u0301pertoire des Artistes et de Leurs Oeuvres. 2012.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 235, no. 37",
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},
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"citation": "Brown, Heather Lemonedes. \u201cIn the Garden.\u201d In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 194-217. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 201; Reproduced: P. 214, no. 143",
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"citation": "Stahl, Fabienne. \"Maurice Denis.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 68-73. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 68-73; Mentioned: p. 261-263",
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