"It should be remembered that before a picture is a war horse, a naked woman or any anecdote, it is essentially an ordinary surface covered with colours arranged in a certain way". At the end of the 19th century, this was an outrageous statement by a young painter only twenty years old and a rejection of the conventional painting of art academies.
This young man, living in a suburb of Paris, was called Maurice Denis and was influenced early on by Gauguin and his students. Their hallmark was the use of pure, radiant colors and a clear formal language. Around 1888 he founded the group "Les Nabis" with like-minded, rebellious artists such as Pierre Bonnard and Paul Sérusier. He was regarded as the theoretician of the group and published various articles on his view of art in important contemporary publications. As far as non-European influences are concerned, the Nabis were particularly interested in Japanese woodblock prints.
A typical picture of him is the painting "Sunspots on the Terrace", which shows a female figure on a surface surrounded by trees. With its strongly reduced forms, the figure is hardly recognizable as a woman, and almost exclusively held in complementary colors, this painting in its radical reduction already refers to the coming avant-garde of the 20th century.
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 - (MeisterDrucke-130528).jpg "The Green Christ, 1890 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Procession under the Trees, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "La Dormeuse au Bois Magique by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Calvary or, The Road to Calvary, 1889 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Bathers at Dusk, 1912 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Marthe with a Rose, 1909 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nude with a Bouquet of Violets by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel VI. Psyche")
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.jpg "Bathing at the Pardon of Sainte-Anne-la-Palud, 1905 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Green Beach, Perros Guirec by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Magnificat by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Solitude of Christ by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Bacchus and Ariadne, 1907 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Poster Advertising")
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.jpg "On the Beach with a Red Hat by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Beach Scene with a Boat by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marthe Denis, the artist")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-409835).jpg "Blossoming Trees by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "On the Beach, 1912 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Reproduction of a Poster Advertising")
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.jpg "The Muses, 1893 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel I. Eros Is Struck by Psyche")
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.jpg "Nude at Dusk, ca 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Muses by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Royal Tiger by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Bacchanale of the Royal Tiger by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche Panel Four: The Vengeance of Venus, 1908 by Maurice Denis")
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_Peinture_de_Maurice_Denis_-_(MeisterDrucke-1422411).jpg "The Story of Psyche (Panel 4: The Vengeance of Venus) by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Orpheus and Eurydice by Maurice Denis")
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 and Maurice Denis (1870-1943) at Dusk or The Dessert in the Garden 1897 - (MeisterDrucke-122875).jpg "Marthe (1871-1919) and Maurice Denis (1870-1943) at Dusk, or The Dessert in the Garden, 1897 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Princess in the Tower, c.1900 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Moses Saved from the Water by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Study for The Supper at Emmaus by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Self Portrait by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel XI by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel IV. The Vengeance of Venus by Maurice Denis")
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_from_Lo_-_(MeisterDrucke-1339673).jpg "She was More Beautiful than Dreams from Love: Twelve Lithographs in Color by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Poster for the newspaper La Dépêche de Toulouse, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Cagnes, 1910 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Saint Louis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-128274).jpg "Marthe with a White Veil by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, c.1910 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Ball Game on the Beach, 1922 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "September evening: Young women and children on the beach at the end of the day, mother breastfeeds, others play snowshoes, 1911 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "In the Presence of the Gods, Jupiter Grants Immortality to Psyche and Celebrates Her Marriage with Cupid by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The New Born, 1900 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Memory of Evening II or, The Vineyard at Le Pecq, 1890 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "April The Anemones by Maurice Denis")
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_1894_(huile_sur_toile)_-_(MeisterDrucke-984356).jpg "Women at the Creek by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Baigneuses, plage du Pouldu by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Child in the Doorway by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Small Grey Nude by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-909158).jpg "The nativity, 20th century by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1426193).jpg "Offering at Calvary by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel V. Jupiter Bestows Immortality on Psyche and Celebrates Her Marriage to Eros by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-414645).jpg "The Two Sisters, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Portrait of Eva Meurier in a Green Dress, 1891 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Spring by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Epona, Goddess of Herds by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Sleeping Woman, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Mother in a Black Shirt by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Figures in Spring Landscape Sacred Grove by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel II. Zephyr Transporting Psyche to the Island of Delight by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nude Hairdressing by Maurice Denis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-124351).jpg "Sun-Spots on the Terrace by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the Glorification of the Mass (left hand side of the central panel of an altarpiece from the Chapelle du College Sainte-Croix du Vesinet) by Maurice Denis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-137621).jpg "The Bottom of the Valley between Saint-Germain and Mareil, 1894 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Large Family Portrait in Blue and Yellow, 1902 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Landscape with Green Trees or Beech Trees in Kerduel by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Holy Women at the Tomb by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Figures in a Spring Landscape Sacred Grove, 1897 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Maternity, Jean-Paul Nude by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Parisians at the Seaside, 1899 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Garden of Olives, Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1660160).jpg "The Orchard of the Virgins by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Crown of Daisies, c. 1906 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Knight Did Not Die at the Crusade, plate five from Love by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Le Bain en plein air, 1904 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Still Life with Apples by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Maternity at the Window, 1901 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Melisande (detail) by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "A Seascape in Green Tones by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Kneeling Nude by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1325834).jpg "Polyphemus by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Head Raised in Profile by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The sewing lesson by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Illustration with Standing Naked Woman between Trees by a Lake for the Poem Petit Air by Stéphane Mallarmé by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Snack under the Chestnut Trees by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Dispatch of Toulouse by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1660154).jpg "Noli Me Tangere by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Landscape with Hooded Man by Maurice Denis")
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 at Cagnes 1913 (pencil wc on paper) - (MeisterDrucke-120579).jpg "Portrait of Pierre Auguste Renoir at Cagnes, 1913 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Annunciation in Fiesole by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Tribute to Cezanne by Maurice Denis")
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