Maxime-Pierre Jules Dethomas was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, illustrator, and was among the best known theater-set and costume designers of his era. As an artist, Dethomas was highly re
Maxime Dethomas, 1896 by H.T. Lautrec
Maxime Dethomas (centre) with his artist companions (c. 1890)
Maxime Dethomas (right) with Agustine Bulteau at Léry, Côte-d'Or (c.1890)
The Nabis were a group of young French artists active in Paris from 1888 until 1900, who played a large part in the transition from Impressionism and academic art to abstract art, symbolism and the ot
Maxime Dethomas
…is also remembered for his close friendship with the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, his brother in-law Ignacio Zuloaga and his association with Les Nabis and other important Post-Impressionist and Symbolist artists and writers. Dethomas died in 1929 at the age of 61, and was buried at the Passy Cemetery…
The first Nabis painting, by Paul Sérusier, Le Bois d'Amour à Pont-Aven or Le Talisman, 1888, oil on wood, 27 x 21.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Motif Romanesque by Maurice Denis (1890), one of the earliest Nabi paintings
Maurice Denis, Evening in September (1891)
The printed dress by Édouard Vuillard (1891), Museu de Arte de São Paulo