Lycée Condorcet (Paris); Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian (1888–90)
1886 - meets Paul Sérusier at Académie Julian
1888 - forms the Nabis with Pierre Bonnard, Paul Ranson and Henri-Gabriel Ibels
1890 - first article, "Definition of Neo-Traditionalism" published in Art et critique
1890s - exhibits regularly with Neo-Impressionists and Symbolists; illustrates Claude Debussy's musical piece The Blessed Damozel and Andre Gide's story Urien's Voyage
1897 - commissioned to provide decorative paintings for Paris residence of Baron Denys Cochin
1900s - exhibits regularly at Salon de la Société Nationale and at the Salon des Indépendants
1919 - establishes the Studios of Sacred Art with George-Olivier Desvallières
often to Brittany; Florence and Rome (1898)
Baron Denys Cochin
Landscape with Green Trees or Beech Trees in Kerduel, 1893 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
Sacred Heart Crucified, 1894 (Private Collection)
Springtime, c. 1897 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Chassé, Charles. The Nabis and Their Period, Michael Bullock, trans. London: Lund Humphries, 1969
Denis, Maurice. Maurice Denis, 1870-1943. Exhibition catalogue. Ghent: Snoeck-Ducaju and Zoon, 1994
Mauner, George L. The Nabis: Their History and Their Art, 1888-1896. New York: Garland, 1967