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Life Becomes Precious, Discreet, plate eleven from Love, 1898, published 1899. Lithograph in yellow, green, pale pink, and gray on light ivory wove paper.
Lithograph in yellow, green, pale pink, and gray on light ivory wove paper · Image: 28.5 × 40.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Life Becomes Precious, Discreet, plate eleven from Love
- Artist
- Maurice Denis (French, 1870-1943) published by Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939)
- Date
- 1898, published 1899
- Medium
- Lithograph in yellow, green, pale pink, and gray on light ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 28.5 × 40.7 cm (11 1/4 × 16 1/16 in.); Sheet: 53.3 × 40.7 cm (21 × 16 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1870–1943
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.