Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec
Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943)
1891
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 55.9 x 46.4 cm (22 x 18 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
One of the leading artists of a group called the Nabis ("Prophets"), Denis rejected naturalism and materialism out of desire to return spirituality to art. His imaginative compositions emphasize flat, decorative shapes and abstract colors. This painting depicts an annual procession in a small village in Brittany held on the feast day of Saint-Jacques. Young women dressed in white lead the procession; they are followed by married women wearing black and carrying a religious icon.
