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Lot Description

Alphonse Mucha

(Czech, 1860-1939)

Bières de la Meuse

, 1897

lithograph

55 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches.

Property from Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California. Sold to Support the Care of Collections and the Mary Silver Fund for Acquisitions

Literature:
Rennert and Weill 27

Provenance:

Mary and Louis Silver French Art Poster Collection

Bequest of Mary Silver, Palm Springs, California

Lot Notes:
In her hair this merry beer drinker wears some of the flowers and grasses used in the brewing of beer, including barley stalks, green hops, and the large field poppies indigenous to northeastern France. This is a classic and extremely popular Art Nouveau design, featuring a woman of idealized beauty set among motifs associated with femininity: elements from nature, arch and circle shapes, and winding, wayward hair interwoven with plants.

Condition Report

Framed: 65 x 45 inches.

Not examined out of frame, appears to be backed, surface dirt and uneven toning, slight bubbling in sheet throughout consistent with backing process, slight creasing with associated ink loss mostly concentrated in the lower right quadrant of sheet.

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