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SOLEIL DU DIMANCHE. Magazine cover. June 6, 1897.
14
3
/
8
x9
3
/
4
inches, 36
1
/
2
x24
3
/
4
cm. Rougeron Vignerot, Paris.
Condition A-: repaired tear and creasing at left edge, into image. Matted and framed. Unexamined out of frame.
[400/600]
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THE WEST END REVIEW. Magazine cover. 1898.
14x10 inches, 35
1
/
2
x25 cm.
Condition A / A-: trimmed margins; unobtrusive horizontal fold; hinged to mat at corners. Paper. Matted
and framed.
Mucha designed a poster of this magazine that was one of his largest lithographic endeavors, a nine-sheet
poster measuring 10 feet by 7 feet. The wonderful image of a muse being inspired by a cherub beneath
a palm-frond halo, was also used for a number of the magazine’s covers. The periodical, which has been
called a literary magazine but may have actually been a London theatrical review, was published under
this name from June 1897 through September 1899. Lendl p. 138 (var), Brno 36 (var), Rennert / Weill
50 (var), Mucha / Henderson 83, Mucha / Bridges A35, Reade 22.
[800/1,200]
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