id: 448809 accession number: 2021.170 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.170 updated: 2023-01-19 15:18:20.456000 Love, 1899. Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943). 13 color lithographs; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust and partial gift of Stephen Dull 2021.170 title: Love title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1899 creation date earliest: 1899 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Purchase from the Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust and partial gift of Stephen Dull copyright: --- culture: technique: 13 color lithographs department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Portfolio find spot: catalogue raisonne: Cailler 107-119 --- CREATORS * Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Georgina Kelman Works on Paper, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-2021 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2021- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Maurice Denis was a devout Catholic and often drew visual connections between his wife, Marthe, the subject of this print series, and the Virgin Mary. digital description: Maurice Denis belonged to the Nabis, a group of artists who came together in 1889 to pursue a radical new style informed by subjective experience and emotion. This print is from a series in which Denis explored his devotion to his wife, Marthe, by depicting her in a variety of settings alongside titles drawn from his own journal. The vague but evocative images were meant to encourage the viewer to draw connections to the theme and meditate on its meaning. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cailler, Pierre. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Maurice Denis. Geneve: Éditions Pierre Cailler, 1968. page number: Mentioned: nos. 107-119 url: --- IMAGES