Alfons Mucha (1860 - 1939)
Lot 1: THE FOUR SEASONS, A SET OF FOUR LITHOGRAPHS DESIGNED BY A. MUCHA 1900
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Description
four polychrome lithographs on paper, depicting female allegories of the seasons, all separately framed in a gilt wood ornamental frame
all with lithographed signature
Quantity: 4
Dimensions
35 x 15 cm without frame, altered
Literature
cf. A. Bridges (ed), Alphonse Mucha, the complete graphic work, London 1980, p. 146, cat. no. p7, for an example of the original state of these panels, printed next to each other on a single sheet within an ornamental border (43 x 61 cm). The lithographes here offered for sale have been separately cut out without the caption with the seasons names, which are now lost. The cut-outs have assumably been framed separately circa 1900.
20th Century Decorative Arts and Design
bySotheby's
Amsterdam, Netherlands