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| Keywords: Maurice Denis Homage to Cezanne 1900.jpg en This painting rings out like a manifesto Maurice Denis has assembled a group of friends artists and critics in the shop of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard to celebrate Paul Cézanne who is represented by the still life on the easel This painting Fruit Bowl Glass and Apples had belonged to Paul Gauguin who is also evoked among the tutelary examples to whom Denis is paying homage Effectively a painting by Gauguin and another by Renoir can be made out in the background Odilon Redon is also given pride of place he is shown in the foreground on the far left and most of the figures are looking at him He is listening to Paul Sérusier who is standing in front of him From left to right we can recognise Edouard Vuillard the critic André Mellerio in a top hat Vollard behind the easel Maurice Denis Paul Ranson Ker-Xavier Roussel Pierre Bonnard smoking a pipe and lastly Marthe Denis the painter's young wife Part of the Nabi generation is gathered here in a composition which follows on from the homage paid by Fantin-Latour in several paintings especially A Studio at Les Batignolles in the Musée d'Orsay When Maurice Denis exhibited his work in Paris and Brussels in 1901 reactions were sometimes hostile In his diary the artist referred to it as that painting which still makes the public laugh His friend the writer André Gide immediately offered to buy it He did not part with it until 1928 when he gave it to the Musée du Luxembourg http //www wikiart org/en/maurice-denis/homage-to-cezanne-1900 Creator Maurice Denis 1900 PD-Old Paintings by Maurice Denis 1900 paintings Ambroise Vollard | ||||
