Mucha Gets Top Billing

Published on 01 November 2018, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Mucha will be occupying the Musée du Luxembourg over the winter. Meanwhile, auctions have been featuring his iconic works all year round: proof of his enduring success.

"Les Maîtres de l'affiche – Publication mensuelle contenant la reproduction des plus... Mucha Gets Top Billing

"Les Maîtres de l'affiche – Publication mensuelle contenant la reproduction des plus belles affiches illustrées des grands maîtres français et étrangers", foreword by Roger Marx, Paris, Chaix printing works, 1896-1900, 5 vol. in-folio, complete with 240 plates and 80 folding posters.
Paris, Drouot, 11 April 2018, Ferri & Associés auction house.
Estimate: €72,685.

The Paris exhibition jointly staged by the Musée du Luxembourg and the Mucha Foundation in Prague presents a comprehensive view of the artist’s creative achievements, going beyond his contribution to posters and advertising alone. It presents a far more complex portrait of Alphonse Mucha, who also explored a form of historical painting with a patriotic, epic and even esoteric touch, aspiring to the unity of all the Slavic peoples. But this facet is barely evident at auction, as his decorative vein is virtually omnipresent, and collectors do battle for his posters and illustrative projects. The “Mucha style” reigns supreme. Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), c. 1898, chromolithograph on paper, label for boxes of LU vanilla wafers, Ferdinand Champenois printing works, Paris, 25.6 x 23.1 cm. Paris, Drouot, 19 September 2018, Leclere-auction house. Estimate: €1,040. Sarah and Mucha…

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