Mucha – Dictionnaire des Arts Décoratifs, 1902

By MUCHA Alphonse (1860-1939)

Alphonse Mucha — Dictionnaire des Arts Décoratifs

Date / publisher: Montgredien & Cie, Librairie Illustrée, Paris, 1902 (dictionary by Paul Rouaix; cover design by Mucha)

Medium: Colour lithograph on wove paper (vélin); seated maiden crowned with laurel holding a quill pen, against a gilt Byzantine rosette halo; signed “Mucha” in the plate (lower right)

Signed / numbered: Signed in the plate; unnumbered, as issued

Dimensions:

sheet 25.5 × 17 cm (10 × 6¾ in.)

image approx. 19 × 12.5 cm (7½ × 5 in.)

Condition: Staining in the margins; image otherwise clean. (full condition to confirm)

Description: Mucha’s Art Nouveau frontispiece for Paul Rouaix’s Dictionnaire des Arts Décoratifs (1902) — the laurel symbolising the arts and poetry, the quill standing for knowledge and creation — in his signature pastel palette with a Byzantine mosaic halo.

Originality: Authentic period colour lithograph (1902), plate from the Dictionnaire des Arts Décoratifs

Price : 280,00 € ( 322.00 USD )