Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009289Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec
About the Artwork
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.
Provenance
1891–1940: Edouard Vuillard [1868-1940] Paris, France, gifted from the artist in 1891 by 1970: Private Collection, Paris, France after 1984: (Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris, France) by 1992: Private Collection, France 2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2020–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 55.9 x 46.4 cm (22 x 18 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.108
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