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brilliantly via the use of metallic inks, manage to achieve a previously inconceivable concept: Mucha’s
diagonal movement within the image is actually curved! Rennert / Weill 31, Wine Spectator 73, Voyage
p. 15, Train p. 16, Brno 29, Mucha Grand Palais 55, Darmstadt 57, Mucha / Henderson 70, Mucha /
Bridges A21, Spirit of Art Nouveau 24, DFP-II 639, Lendl p. 111.
[12,000/18,000]
ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)
109
●
OPERA DE MONTE - CARLO / LA VIE DE BOHÈME. 1922.
47
1
/
8
x32
5
/
8
inches, 119
3
/
4
x83 cm. Robaudy, Cannes.
Condition A-: minor abrasions and restoration along creases in image and at edges. Framed. Unexamined
out of frame.
This stock image originated in the pages of
La Plume
in 1897 when it was used as the border for the
title page of a special edition of the magazine dedicated to Mucha. From 1904 through 1923 the
borders were printed in Cannes and used to promote various events in Monte Carlo. Rennert / Weill
33 (var), Mucha Grand Palais A. 28 (var), Darmstadt P28 (var), Lendl p. 23.
[1,200/1,800]
Lot 108 (continued)