Amour

Amour is a portfolio of etchings, and is Maurice Denis' homage to his fiancée. It is other-worldly and suffused with tender love.

Maurice Denis' Amour is an extended love letter to the woman who became his wife and muse. The title of each of the 12 prints is taken from the diary Denis kept of the courtship, which he transfigures in these scenes of his beloved asleep, picking roses, praying, or simply gazing back at him. All the dramatic use of flat color and strong outlines that characterize...