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拍品专文
Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl will include this work in their forthcoming Maurice Denis catalogue raisonné.
Although most well-known as a member of the group of young artists known as the Nabis in the late 1880s and early 1890s, by 1900 Maurice Denis was working in a more classical manner and finding steady commercial success as a result. In 1904, Eugène Druet of the prestigious Galerie Druet, became his primary dealer. Many of the highlights of Denis’ oeuvre between 1908 and 1914 take the form of large scale decorative murals, whether for private houses, such as that of the Prince de Wagram in Paris, or more public buildings. The present lot is a large scale preparatory drawing for one of the vertical panels of an important decorative cycle known as The Games of Nausicaa, commissioned from the artist by Druet, and executed by Denis between 1913 and 1914. Two closely related paintings of the title Le Tennis are now in the Musée Nationale du Sport Français in Paris.
Although most well-known as a member of the group of young artists known as the Nabis in the late 1880s and early 1890s, by 1900 Maurice Denis was working in a more classical manner and finding steady commercial success as a result. In 1904, Eugène Druet of the prestigious Galerie Druet, became his primary dealer. Many of the highlights of Denis’ oeuvre between 1908 and 1914 take the form of large scale decorative murals, whether for private houses, such as that of the Prince de Wagram in Paris, or more public buildings. The present lot is a large scale preparatory drawing for one of the vertical panels of an important decorative cycle known as The Games of Nausicaa, commissioned from the artist by Druet, and executed by Denis between 1913 and 1914. Two closely related paintings of the title Le Tennis are now in the Musée Nationale du Sport Français in Paris.