About this artwork
These 12 prints come from Love, a series of color lithographs that form a disjointed narrative about a woman who experiences love, although it is unclear if she is falling in love with a man, nature, or her faith. Each soft and dreamlike image is paired with a caption of fragmented poetry that serves as its title, but these phrases do not directly describe their corresponding images. Maurice Denis, who was also a writer, crafted these puzzling yet evocative captions to add layers of meaning through the interplay of text and image.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Maurice Denis
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Title
- Our Souls, in Languorous Gestures, plate nine from Love
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1898–1899
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Medium
- Lithograph in pale pink, slate gray, red-brown, and yellow on light ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 29.5 × 40.2 cm (11 5/8 × 15 7/8 in.); Sheet: 40.7 × 52.8 cm (16 1/16 × 20 13/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1946.432g
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/117213/manifest.json
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