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ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)
144
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[JIRÍ MUCHA AND HUMMINGBIRD.] Etching. Circa 1920.
8
5
/
8
x8
1
/
2
inches, 30x21
1
/
2
cm.
Condition A: creasing along plate mark. Matted and framed. Unexamined out of frame.
This is a tender, sweet and
PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED
etching of Jirí Mucha, Alphonse’s son, when he
was four or five years old. We could find no record of this etching in any reference books or appearing
at auction, and the artist only very rarely worked in this medium at all. The Mucha family suggests
that the artist “did it for himself and the immediate family so the overall number is likely to be quite
small.” The image is similar to a cover Mucha designed for the Hearst International Magazine in January,
1922, which features a young boy for whom Mucha used his son as a model, featuring his same angelic
face and hair.
RARE
.
[1,000/1,500]