Carnation - Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

Carnation from the series "The Flowers"
Original lithograph
Signed "Mucha" atthe lower part of the plate.

France
circa 1898
measurements of the lithograph : 102 x 41 cm
measurements with frame : 122 x 61 cm
Some alterations to the paper 

A similar model is reproduced in "Alphonse Mucha, toutes lesaffiches et panneaux", Jack Rennert, Alain Weill, Hjert & Hjert AB,Uppsala, Suède, 1984, page 196, n°49. 

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Biography :
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939),by his full name, Alfons Maria Mucha, was a poster artist, illustrator, painterand decorator born in Ivancice, Moravia then part of the Austrian Empire, todayin the Czech Republic. After his stays in Vienna and Munich, Mucha went to Paris in 1887 to continuehis studies at the Académie Julian and then the Académie Colarossi, whileproducing advertising posters and illustrating catalogs, calendars and books.The technical and artistic qualities of Muchawere finally recognized and he was hired by the first major publishing house inParis, Armand Colin. His celebrity came mainly from his elegant Art Nouveauposters, fashionable in particular thanks to the actress Sarah Bernhardt, forwhom he composed her theater posters since "Gismonda" in 1894.Mucha remained indissociable fromthe image of Paris 1900. He received for example the silver medal at the 1900 UniversalExhibition, and he was also knighted the Legion of Honor. The following year,Mucha designed the Fouquet jeweler's shop at 6, rue Royale in Paris (shop nowdisplayed at the Musée Carnavalet).Another less well-known production of Mucha,however, includes paintings, sculptures, sets and objets d'art, witnesses ofthis mystic and visionary man, animated by a true political thought. At thetime of the Czech national revival and the break-up of the Austro-HungarianEmpire, he worked on his Slavic Epic which occupied him between 1910 and 1928,witnessing then his dream of unity among the Slav peoples.