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La Depêche de Toulouse

Maurice Denis French, 1870-1943
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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.

La Depêche de Toulouse

1892

Maurice Denis

1870-1943

French

Unknown

Oil on canvas

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)

Paintings

European Modern Art to 1970

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

1985.15

Restricted

Markings

Signed, center left, vertically: MAUDENIS

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.

La Depêche de Toulouse
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