Lot n° 339
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MUCHA Alphonse. Beer of the Meuse. 1897. - Lot 339
MUCHA Alphonse. Beer of the Meuse. 1897.
Lithographic poster signed in the plate at the bottom left. Printed by F. Champenois. Paris. Not interfaced, good condition: localized foxing notably more important in the upper and lower parts of the poster, yellowed paper and very slightly insolated in the upper part of the poster, a very slight break in the paper located in the woman's hair, soiling and tears in the crumpled margins. Very bright and fresh colors, intense red for the poppies.
146 x 101 cm
Bibliography : Jack Rennert and Alain Weill. Alphonse Mucha. All the posters and panels. Editions Henri Veyrier Paris 1984. Pages 126 and 127. Ill. 27 : "This jovial beer drinker has her long braids of hair unfurled in a wave adorned with attributes appropriate to beer: barley, hops and also poppies. It is a classic Mucha composition with the woman, the circular and semi-circular motifs and the exaggeratedly voluted hair... Mucha did not draw the brewery buildings in the lower left himself, nor the allegory of the Meuse, the brand's emblem, which is found on all his posters. They were probably the work of another artist or a lithographer. Jiri Mucha. The Grafic Work of Alphonse Mucha. Academy Editions London 1973. Page 54. Ill. 68. Catalog of the exhibition. Mucha the Ivan Lendl collection. Union des Arts Décoratifs 1988. Page 36. Ill. 27.
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