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
The Swan Princess
The Swan Princess
Painting ID:: 30885
Russian Symbolist Painter, 1856-1910
Russian painter and draughtsman. He was a pioneer of modernism, and his highly innovative technique broke with the traditions of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, where he had been a brilliant student; at the same time he felt dissociated from the social consciousness of The Wanderers.
The Swan Princess
The Swan Princess
Painting ID:: 31227
mk72
1900
Sketch for the 1900 painting of the same title,now in the Tretyakov Gallery
Oil on panl
23x19.5cm,Russian Museum,St.Petersburg
mk72
1900
Sketch for the 1900 painting of the same title,now in the Tretyakov Gallery
Oil on panl
23x19.5cm,Russian Museum,St.Petersburg
Mikhail Vrubel Russian Symbolist Painter, 1856-1910
Russian painter and draughtsman. He was a pioneer of modernism, and his highly innovative technique broke with the traditions of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, where he had been a brilliant student; at the same time he felt dissociated from the social consciousness of The Wanderers. The Swan Princess mk72
1900
Sketch for the 1900 painting of the same title,now in the Tretyakov Gallery
Oil on panl
23x19.5cm,Russian Museum,St.Petersburg