MAURICE DENIS

1870 - 1943

Major painter, muralist, designer, printmaker, art theorist, influential in modernistic currents at rum of century, with Cauguin at Pont-Aven, in Symbolist and "Nabi" movements, strong religious element in his art.

(Appelbaum Stanley, The complete "Masters of the Poster",  Dover Publications Inc., New York 1990)