La Dame aux Camelia

This is a reproduction of Alphonse Mucha's poster of 1896 advertising Sarah Bernhardt's role in the adaptation for the stage of Alexandre Dumas'... more

by Alphonse Mucha

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Price

$1,000

Dimensions

7.000 x 20.000 x 0.750 inches

Title

La Dame aux Camelia

Artist

Alphonse Mucha

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

This is a reproduction of Alphonse Mucha's poster of 1896 advertising Sarah Bernhardt's role in the adaptation for the stage of Alexandre Dumas' novel Lady of the Camelias. The novel of 1848 was a great success and Verdi adapted it and created La Traviata in 1853. An English translation of the play is known as Camille. Mucha was a native of Ivancice, Moravia having been born in 1860 in the Austrian Empire. This is presently within the Czech Republic and Mucha was Czech by nationality. Prior to 1887 he worked in Moravia and Vienna and in that year he began his studies at the Academie Julian and Academie Colarossi, both in Paris. Late in 1894 he happened across a sudden need for a poster for Sarah Bernhardt opening a play at the Teatre de la Renaissance. He produced a poster by January 1, 1895 and began a six year contract with Bernardt. He was an immediate commercial success and his unique compositions soon came to be known as the "Mucha Style". It was soon re-christened Art Nouveau and became wildly popular and much imitated. Mucha married, visited the United States from 1906 and 1910 and , in the latter year, settled in Prague where he became a proponent of Czech nationalism. He designed many of the documents for the new state when Czechoslovakia declared its independence in 1918. In 1939 he was arrested by the Nazis when Czechoslovakia was annexed and died shortly thereafter on July 14.

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February 21st, 2015