Featuring poster work, portraiture, page layouts, borders and typography, this is an accessible collection of 70 high-quality illustrations (61 in black and white, 9 in full colour) reproduced directly from Mucha's original drawings, and spanning the whole of his career. This selection includes sketches for paintings, advertising and packaging art, studies for style books.
Among the more famous examples are - 'The Seasons' - (full-colour drawings for the complete set, plus a preliminary charcoal sketch for 'Autumn'.), 'St. Louis World's Fair poster' - (full-colour lithograph, preliminary pencil sketch), 'Sarah Bernhardt drawings' - (Four works in indian ink pencil), 'Documents decoratifs' and 'Figures decoratifs' - Studies from Mucha's two brilliant, innovative stylebooks.
Illustrations: 70 full page colour and black and white designs
Size: 238 x 310 mm
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