La Depeche - Les Maitre de l'Affiche - 1891

Denis poster reading La Depeche [The Dispatch, published in Toulouse]; large format, free distribution of the specimen numbers of April 16 and 17. 1891. - Maurice Denis (French; 1870-1943): Major painter, muralist, designer, printmaker, art theorist; influential in modernistic currents at turn of century; with Gauguin at Pont-Aven; in Symbolist and Nabi movements; strong religious element in his art.