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Blue Seascape Wave 1893

Georges Lavonne (1868-1916)

Les Muses, oil on canvas (1893) Maurice Denis (1870–1943) reimagines classical Greek mythology through a modern lens in this hallmark of the Nabi movement. Set in his hometown, Granville, Manche, a coastal town in the Normandy region of France. The painting replaces the nine deities of art and science with contemporary women, many modeled after his wife, Marthe.

Paul Sérusier (French, 1864–1927)

"Portrait of Jan Verkade at Beuron", 1903

Jan Verkade (b. Johannes Sixtus Gerhardus “Jan” Verkade, later Fr. Willibrord Verkade, OSB; Dutch, 1868–1946) was a post-impressionist painter, student of Gauguin, and member of the "Nabis". In 1892 he converted to Catholicism, later settling in the Benedictine Abbey of Beuron. He entered the abbey as a novice in 1894 and was ordained a priest in 1904.