Cover for Love

Description

This cover belongs to 12 prints titled Love, a series of color lithographs that form a disjointed narrative about a woman who experiences love, although it is unclear if she is falling in love with a man, nature, or her faith. Each soft and dreamlike image is paired with a caption of fragmented poetry that serves as its title, but these phrases do not directly describe their corresponding images. Maurice Denis, who was also a writer, crafted these puzzling yet evocative captions to add layers of meaning through the interplay of text and image.

Cover for Love

Maurice Denis

1898, published 1899

Accession Number

117207

Medium

Lithograph in green, blue, and gray on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 52.6 × 42.5 cm (20 3/4 × 16 3/4 in.); Sheet: 58.7 × 45.4 cm (23 1/8 × 17 7/8 in.)

Classification

lithograph

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection