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Alphonse Mucha’s style is called Art Nouveau. He was acclaimed for his distinctly stylized and decorative illustrated posters and prints, particularly those depicting French actress and artists’ muse Sarah Bernhardt. Mucha fervently believed that art is a crucial, enjoyable benefit to humankind and should be accessible to as many people as possible. On 1stDibs, shop an assortment of Alphonse Mucha art.
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Lorenzaccio (Sarah Bernhardt) - Lithograph (Les Maîtres de l
Affiche), 1897
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Paris, IDF
Alphonse Mucha
Lorenzaccio (Sarah Bernhardt), 1897
Stone lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum
Size 39 x 29 cm (c. 15.3 x 11.4")
REFERENCES : Small version of the li...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original "Fishmonger" or Pesche, untitled vintage print c. 1908
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Alphonse Mucha decorative panel. Linen backed in very good condition A-/B+ condition. This lovely poster looks just like an oil painting. It is a rare design by Alphonse ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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1900 original poster La Topaze by Alphonse Mucha, part of Les Pierres Précieuses
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1900 original poster "La Topaze" by Alphonse Mucha, part of the renowned "Les Pierres Précieuses" series, is a quintessential example of the Art Nouveau movement. This work, prin...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Seasons: Autumn - Original lithograph (Catalog raisonne Bridges P50), 1903
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Paris, IDF
Alphonse Mucha
Seasons: Autumn, 1903
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
Printed on paper 71 x 31 cm (c. 27.9 x 12.2 inches)
On paper linen on canvas, 75 x 35.5 cm (c...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Princess Hyacinthe" Original 1911 Lithograph, Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Palm Beach, FL
“One of Mucha’s best Czech posters, printed by the firm of V. Neubert in the Smichov quarter of Prague, was for Princezna Hyacinta, a fairy-tale ballet and pantomime with music by Oskar Nedbal and libretto by Ladislav Novák. The portrait of the popular actress Andula Sedlácková as the princess dominates the poster. The plot develops as a dream of a village blacksmith who falls asleep after digging for a buried treasure. In his dreams he becomes lord of a castle, and his daughter Hanicka becomes the Princess Hyacinth. Of her three suitors, one is a sorcerer who abducts her to his underground palace, but she is rescued by a poor knight who looks like her real-life lover. Mucha used the motif of the hyacinth throughout the entire design, from embroideries to silver jewelry, and for an elaborate circle sparkling against the mossy green background. The portrait of the actress is seen against a sky full of stars and encircled with images from the dream: the blacksmith’s tools...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alphonse Mucha
s "Figures Decoratives" 1905 Art Nouveau Lithograph, Plate 37
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate 37 from Alphonse Mucha's Figures Decoratives, a folio of forty color lithographic plates published by Librairie centrale des beaux-arts in 1905.
Issued during a period of incr...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
