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MAURICE DENIS Group of 4 color lithographs.
Frontispiece pour La Demoiselle Élue, 1892. Artist's proof * Fragment d'une Décoration d'Église, 1899. Signed in pencil, lower right. * Nativité, 1907. * Annonciation, 1943. Numbered 100/100 in pencil, lower left. Ex-collection Emil M. Baerwald (Lugt supplement 885c, lower left recto). Various sizes and conditions. Very good impressions.
Though less known today than his Nabis contemporaries, Vuillard and Bonnard, Denis was nevertheless more popular at the time of the Armory Show. Among the handful of his lithographs that sold through the exhition, all from his best known series Amour, published by Vollard in 1899, three were purchased by prominent collector Lillie P. Bliss (all now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York) for a total of $36 (approximately $850 today). Meanwhile, his sole painting in the exhibition, La Plage, 1903, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, was offered for what seems a staggering $8500 (or $200,000 today). Callier 29, 102, 132 and 231.
