La Depêche de Toulouse

1892

Maurice Denis French, 1870-1943

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

New technology allowed for inexpensive printing and the wide distribution of newspapers, books, and advertisements in the late nineteenth century. Maurice Denis created a poster advertising the newspaper La Dépêche de Toulouse. The owner of the paper was so pleased with the swirling excitement of the art nouveau-styled poster that he asked Denis to create this painting as a larger and more permanent image to be hung in his office.

Title La Depêche de Toulouse

Artwork Date 1892

Artist Maurice Denis

Life Dates 1870-1943

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 51 3/4 × 35 1/4 inches (131.4 × 89.5 cm) Framed: 67 3/4 inches × 51 inches × 3 1/4 inches (172.1 × 129.5 × 8.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1985.15

Markings

Signed Signed, center left, vertically: MAUDENIS

Inscriptions Inscribed, throughout, as part of composition, on the newspapers: LA DEPÊCHE | Editions

Provenance

1892, Arthur Huc (Toulouse, France);
by descent to Mme. Chaviat (Toulouse, France);
private collection (Switzerland);
(Jean Pierre Selz, Lynven, Inc., New York, New York, USA);
1985-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Barazzetti-Demoulin, S. Maurice Denis, 25 Novembvre 1870-13 Novembre 1943. Paris, 1945, p. 279.

Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3: Annual Reports (1986): p. 11 (pl. VII), p. 21.

Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, et al.Tokyo, 1989, pp. 109, 226, cat. 77 (ill.).

Leonard, Anne. Arabesque. Exh. cat., Clark Art Institute. Willamston, Massachusetts, 2019, p. 37, cat. no. 12 (fig. 40 ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Maurice Denis, La Depêche de Toulouse, 1892, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1985.15.