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Maurice Denis
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1911-1912
Tempera_on_Plaster_and_glass,
7'_10_1/2''(240_cm)diameter
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Scale Model for the Cupola of the Theatre des Champs-Elysees
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Tempera on Plaster and glass,
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1870-1943
French
Maurice Denis Locations
French painter, designer, printmaker and theorist. Although born in Normandy, Denis lived throughout his life in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, just west of Paris. He attended the Lycee Condorcet, Paris, where he met many of his future artistic contemporaries, then studied art simultaneously at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Academie Julian (1888-90). Through fellow student Paul Serusier, in 1888 he learnt of the innovative stylistic discoveries made that summer in Pont-Aven by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard. With Serusier and a number of like-minded contemporaries at the Academie Julian
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