Maurice Denis : La Terrasse, C. 1923

By DENIS Maurice (1870 - 1943)

Maurice Denis, La Terrasse, c. 1923

Original lithograph on Japanese paper (chine volant). Galerie des Peintres-Graveurs, Edmond Frapier, Paris.

Signed and dated in the plate, lower right: MAY.DENIS.23. Not numbered.

From an edition of 525. Published in the album Les Peintres Lithographes de Manet à Matisse, Frapier, Paris.

Dimensions :

Sheet : 27.5 × 36.5 cm / 10⅞ × 14⅜ in.

Size of the image : 17 × 24.5 cm / 6¾ × 9⅝ in.

Condition : Very good condition. A few scattered foxing spots. Not framed.

One of Maurice Denis’s most intimate family compositions, depicting his wife Marthe and their daughters on the sunlit terrace of their villa at Fiesole, near Florence. The Tuscan cypresses and rolling hills create the contemplative, almost sacred atmosphere characteristic of Denis’s domestic scenes.

Literature : L’œuvre gravé et lithographié, Pierre Cailler, no. 142.