24" ALPHONSE MUCHA "The Slav Epic cycle No.15" painting canvas not oil printed on canvas
ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860 –1939)
Ready to be hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden frame.
Medium: printed on canvas panel
Diagonal: 24" or 61 cm.
Size: 19,7" x 13,8" (in) or 50 x 35 cm.
Date: c. 1914. w / C. of Attribution.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas.
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo.
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Alfons Maria Mucha known internationally
as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living
in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized
and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced
illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, and designs, which became
among the best-known images of the period. In the second part of
his career, at the age of 43, he returned to his homeland of Bohemia-Moravia
region in Austria and devoted himself to painting a series of twenty monumental
canvases known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the Slavic
peoples of the world, which he painted between 1912 and 1926. In 1928, on the
10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series
to the Czech nation. He considered it his most important work. It is now on
display in Prague. One of the largest collections of Mucha's works is in the
possession of former world no.1 professional tennis player Ivan Lendl, who
started collecting his works upon meeting Jiří Mucha in 1982. His collection
was exhibited publicly for the first time in 2013 in Prague.
Ref.: 31027521908