Posters & Decorative Panels

Twenty-five posters and decorative panels by Alphonse Mucha — the Czech artist who became the defining figure of Art Nouveau and whose sinuous, ornamental style remains one of the most instantly recognizable aesthetics in the history of graphic design. In 1894, the unknown Mucha was asked to design an emergency poster for Sarah Bernhardt's play Gismonda. The result — a life-sized figure of Bernhardt in Byzantine robes, framed by a mosaic arch — caused a sensation and launched a career that would reshape the visual culture of the Belle Époque. Over the next decade, Mucha produced hundreds of posters, panels, and decorative designs: idealized women with flowing hair, surrounded by halos of ornamental motifs drawn from nature, geometry, and Slavic folk art. The palette is unmistakable — dusty pinks, sage greens, golds, and the soft tones of lithographic printing. This collection spans from the Gismonda breakthrough through the great decorative series — The Seasons, The Flowers, The Arts, The Stars, the Byzantine Heads — to the monumental Slav Epic canvases that consumed the last decades of his life. Each image is presented at high resolution to reveal Mucha's extraordinary draftsmanship and the delicate tonal gradations of his lithographic technique.