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Chocolat Masson/Chocolat Mexicain
1897

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Title: Exposition universelle & internationale de St. Louis (Etats-Unis), du 30 Avril au 30 Novembre 1904
Author: Mucha, Alphonse Marie, 1860-1939
Place of origin: Paris
Publisher: F. Champenois
Date [1903]
Source: General Modern Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

alphonse mucha | posters | illustration | Feb 26th

laurgold:

My department’s auction catalogue just came in today, for our Vintage Posters sale on Feb 5th! Love the cover we picked out ;-)

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Alphonse Mucha (1850-1939) is known as one of the most prominent artists of art nouveau and for revolutionalizing posters and commercial art. Born in Czechoslovakia, Mucha was active in the arts from a young age. His first job in the artist was as a theater’s set designer in the Vienna, but when their theater burned down he traveled as far as he could to Moravia, where he paid his way by drawing street portraits. It was there he was discovered by his first patron Count Khuen Belasi. He painted murals for the count and his brother who sponsored Mucha to study at the Academy of Art in Munich and then to study in Paris. After a few years the Count had to withdraw his support of Mucha who then began to work as a magazine illustrator. In 1894, while working for a printer he was commissioned a poster for the famous Parisian actress Sarah Bernhardt for he new production of Gismonda. The poster was different than all the others on the streets of Paris. It was a long vertical almost life size format with soft pastel colors and the signature Mucha ‘halo’. With the admiration of Bernhardt on his side, this style became the most popular in ushering the art nouveau era. Bernhardt offered him a contract the continue producing posters for her as well as costume and set designs. In 1902 he published a book detailing his art nouveau style called Documents Decoratifs. Mucha also taught at the Academie Colossi and later the Academie Carmen before he was commissioned to paint a mural inside the Bosnia-Herzegovina Pavilion by the Austrian Government. While researching for the project he came up with idea for his Slav Epic, a tribute to the trials and tribulations of the Slav people. To realize this dream Mucha went to America to raise money, but initially hit hard times. In 1906, he married Marie Chitylova and in 1909, American millionaire Charles Crane agreed to fund Mucha’s Slav Epic. He returned for the study in the Balkans in 1910 and complete his canvases from 1912-1926. From then on it was a struggle to find a suitable space in which to display the paintings, and when Mucha died in 1939 from pneumonia, they were still in storage, having never found a suitable venue.

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alphonse-mucha | art | art nouveau | posters | Jun 20th

Alphonse Mucha The Complete Works on CD (PC only)

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Alphonse Mucha The Complete Works on CD (PC only)
This CD contains 170 images of posters, panels and other works by the artist. Images can be found and viewed in 4 ways: alphabetical list, thumbnail view, flipped like pages in a book or as a slideshow. All titles, sizes, and years of publication are included. This interactive CD also contains sound. It is a valuable source of information for the collector or researcher. Take Action! Get it immediately!!

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