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Attitudes are easy and chaste

Maurice DENIS
Attitudes are easy and chaste
(Les attitudes sont faciles et chastes)
 (c. 1897-1898)
plate 2 from the Amour (Love) suite, published 1899

Medium
colour lithograph

Measurements
38.6 × 28.0 cm (image) 53.4 × 40.7 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Women's Association with the assistance of Jennifer Lempriere, 2008

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Cailler 109

Printing/Publishing
printed by Auguste Clot, Paris; published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Inscription
printed in brown ink below image l.l.: Les attitudes sont faciles et chastes

Accession Number
2008.378.3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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