Cleveland Museum of Art
Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec
Maurice DenisLinkedCulture matchlcp-ec38b65b9a04
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 75763
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. A pardon is a ceremony that occurs on the feast of the patron saint of a church often followed by a procession.
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- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- 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
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