Maurice Chabas was a pupil of William Bouguereau and of Tony Robert-Fleury. He executed numerous paintings inspired by mythological or psychological subjects. He painted decorative panels for the city halls in Vincennes and in the 14th district in Paris, and for the Lyons Perrache station. His landscapes combine figures of women with flowers, and evoke the art of Maurice Denis and the Nabis group.

Chabas received a third-class medal, a second-class medal and a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 and showed at the Exposition Universelle in Brussels in 1910. He was a member of the Comité du Salon des Tuileries, a member of the Salon d'Automne and a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He often exhibited abroad, notably at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.

He was the brother of Paul Chabas.

Solo Exhibitions

1952, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (retrospective)
2009, Musée de Pont-Aven

Museum and Gallery Holdings

Brest (MBA): Towards New Skies (pastel highlighted with gouache on paper)
Hanover: Nemea; Exiled
Laval (Mus. du vieux château): Imaginary Landscape (1896, oil on canvas)
Nantes (MBA): Portrait of Ernest Pironneau (oil on canvas)
Quimper (MBA): Landscape (oil on canvas); Dreaming (pastel on paper)
Paris (FNAC): Calm and Serenity (oil on canvas)
Paris (MAM): The Bread Oven or Old Oven (c. 1930, oil on canvas)
Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): Portrait of the Artist's Father (before 1931, oil on canvas)
Paris (Petit Palais): Contemplation (oil on canvas)