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Twilights Have the Softness of Old Paintings
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLove (Amour): Twilights Have the Softness of Old Paintings, 1899. Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943). Color lithograph on wove paper; image: 39.5 x 29.6 cm (15 9/16 x 11 5/8 in.); sheet: 52.7 x 40.7 cm (20 3/4 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust and partial gift of Stephen Dull, 2021.170.7
