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Maurice Denis

105 works

Maurice Denis (1870-1943) was a French painter and writer of the Nabis group; in 1890 he wrote that a picture is essentially a flat surface covered with colors arranged in a certain order. Read more

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Painting of a seated woman in a green striped dress with dark hair, beside white flowers against a green background with pink

Eva Meurier in a Green Dress

1891

Painting of robed figures in a procession across a stylized green landscape, with a banner and red sun.

Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec

1891

Painting of a moonlit village garden with a dark figure among hanging white linen, pale houses and bare trees.

Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory

1894

Painting of a yellow crucified Christ on a red cross above dark silhouetted figures and green and brown foliage.

The Orange Christ

1889

Painting of a shimmering sea with pink clouds and warm orange reflections under a turquoise sky, with green shrubs in the for

Ocean Coast

Three women at a draped table with a goblet and fruit, before a yellow building and garden, in muted pastel tones.

Martha and Mary

1896

Painting of nude and draped figures with grape garlands on a pink beach by the sea, with rocks and a sailboat in the backgrou

Bacchus and Ariadne

1907

Painting of a bride and groom walking through an autumn park, with figures in white robes beside them among orange trees.

Wedding Procession

Painting of a sleeping nude figure on a canopy bed as a kneeling figure holds up a lamp, with draped curtains and classical d

Maurice Denis - The Story of Psyche - Third panel

1907

Painting of a sleeping woman tended by a winged figure in a garden of cypresses, statues, and stone pillars.

Maurice Denis - The Story of Psyche - Fourth panel

1907

Painting of Breton women in traditional dress gathered by a whitewashed shrine, with grazing cows and a green meadow behind.

Sacred Spring at Guidel

2018

Seated woman in striped dress holds a child in white beside an open door, with two figures in the room beyond.

Mother and Child

2018

Painting of a smiling woman in a dark dress holding a small child in a pale dress, seated in a wooden chair against a brown w

Mother and Child

1895

Painting of a reclining nude man in purple flowers, draped women and goats, bathers in turquoise sea, and a rainbow over rock

Ulysses with Calypso

1905

Painting of decorated sailboats and flags on a rippling river, framed by tree trunks with standing figures and a child in gra

Blessing of a Yacht on the Belon River

1899

Half-length self-portrait of a young man in a white shirt holding a paintbrush before a window with a patterned curtain.

Portrait of the artist at the age of 18 years

1889

Painting of two women in dark dresses embracing in a garden, with a woman in a doorway behind them and a pink wall.

Encounter

Three women in a pink spring woodland, two nude and seated among white blossoms, one in a flowing gown by a tree.

Figures in a Spring Landscape (Sacred Grove)

1897

Two women in long robes face each other under a flowering trellis in a garden, rendered in flat decorative colours.

Visitation

1894

Painting of sailboats with pink and white sails on patterned water, with women in dark dresses and white bonnets in the foreg

Regattas at Perros-Guirec

1892

Painting of a seated woman mending cloth by a window, two children at a table, and a figure in orange outside.

Intimité ou Ravaudeuse à la fenêtre

1903

Loose oil sketch on an octagonal panel with red drapery, blue cloth and tassels in abstracted brushwork.

La Victoire, esquisse pour la coupole Dutuit, Petit Palais, 1er projet

1919

Painting of a mass held at a golden altar among trees, with white grave crosses, a wreath, mourners and flags.

Messe devant la tombe d'Ernest Psichari

1924

Painting of women and a nude child on rocks by the sea, with bathers in the surf and a hillside town beyond the bay.

Baigneuses à Perros-Guirec

1912

Painting of bathers on a rocky beach with a reclining nude, a draped woman holding a child, and children near turquoise sea w

Baigneuses, plage du Pouldu

1899

Woman in orange dress and straw hat walks past slender trees with reddish branches in a sunlit grassy field.

Motif Romanesque

1890

Painting of a haloed figure at a candlelit table with a servant, rooftops visible through a window, in muted tones.

The Supper at Emmaus

1894

Painting of two women with dark hair, one leaning her head on the other, both with hands raised to their faces, against a pat

Dread

1891

Painting of draped female figures and a nude bathing figure among slender trees and blossoms in a pastel meadow.

Springtime

1894

Painting of a lyre-playing figure among robed women in a forest clearing with violet flowers and pale tree trunks.

Orpheus and Eurydice

1910

Painting of women and girls at a table in a rose-toned room, with fruit, a carafe and an open door to a landscape.

Inner Light

1914

Painting of two women in headscarves seated under a green canopy before tall trees with red and orange autumn foliage at dusk

Evening Memory I

1890

Maurice Denis (1870-1943) was a French painter and writer of the Nabis group; in 1890 he wrote that a picture is essentially a flat surface covered with colors arranged in a certain order. Browse 105 works by Maurice Denis from 36 museums, free to download in HD.