id:			448817
accession number:	2021.170.8
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.170.8
updated:		2023-01-19 15:17:53.841000

Love: She Was More Beautiful Than Dreams, 1899. Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943). Color lithograph on wove paper; image: 40.4 x 29.1 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); sheet: 53 x 40.3 cm (20 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust and partial gift of Stephen Dull 2021.170.8

title:				She Was More Beautiful Than Dreams
title in original language:	
series:				Love
series in original language:	Amour
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:			

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culture:	
technique:	color lithograph on wove paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: Cailler 114

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CREATORS

* Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943)  - artist

* August Clot (French, 1858–1936)  - printer

* Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939)  - publisher
French art dealer and publisher, 1867-1939
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measurements: Image: 40.4 x 29.1 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 53 x 40.3 cm (20 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Recto, lower left: “Elle était plus belle que les rèves”
	translation:	
	remark:		

	inscription:	In graphite, recto, lower right: “Maurice Denis (signed)”
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Georgina Kelman Works on Paper, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: ?-2021
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 6, 2021-
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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:

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cailler, Pierre. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Maurice Denis. Geneve: Éditions Pierre Cailler, 1968.
	page number: 	Mentioned no. 114
	url:		

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