Tag: Maurice Denis

Christie’s Paris: La Collection Sam Josefowitz: Vente du Soir on 20 October 2023. Sam Josefowitz was one of the most revered collectors of our time. His vast-ranging collection of discoveries spanning antiquities to post-Impressionist works is defined by a passionate and scholarly approach. Whether entrepreneurial, cultural, academic or personal, Sam Josefowitz’s innate and boundless curiosity ...

Maurice Denis (France, 1870-1943) studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian, and through fellow student, Paul Sérusier learned of the innovative stylistic movement developed by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard in Pont-Aven in the summer of 1888. With Sérusier and a number of like-minded contemporaries at the Académie Julian such as Pierre ...

Alix Aymé (France, 1894-1989) in Paris, circa 1975 Alix Aymé, the one who awakened the art of lacquer in Vietnam, unveils masterpieces of incredible technical refinement. She began to paint in Paris during the First World War and was a pupil of Maurice Denis. In 1920, she accompanied her husband to Shanghai and then went ...