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Mucha, Alphonse
1860 Ivancice/Moravia - 1939 Prague.
«Les Saisons (Hiver, Printemps, Été, Automne)». Seasonal allegories on four calendar sheets, each with three monthly overviews for the year 1898.
1897. Lithographs in colours on strong wove paper. Each signed lower right on the stone. On the winter sheet dated 1898 on the stone.
H 42,8,
Published by F. Champenois, Paris. «With the decorative panel set of The Seasons of 1896 a proven success, Champenois had Mucha repeat the idea in a new design in 1897, and the result are four more lovely nymphs in arresting poses. Other than Winter who sits all wrapped up and huddled against the cold, they frolic about in diaphanous clothes, their buoyant hair roaming freely in the best Mucha tradition.[...]» from: Jack Rennert and Alain Weil, Alphonse Mucha, The Complete Posters and Panels, Uppsala 1984, p. 151.
Catalogue raisonné: Rennert/Weil 37, variant 2.
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