International previews: Maurice Denis painting in Vannes
This large, 6ft (1.8m) diameter circular oil on canvas, 'April' is the work of the Nabis painter Maurice Denis. It is one of three ceiling panels commissioned from the artist by the musician Ernest Chausson for his Parisian town house between 1894 and 1899.
April, the first to be ordered, features young women in voluminous white dresses (a characteristic…