Posters

One of Mucha’s most popular designs, Zodiac was originally made for Champenois as an 1897 in-house calendar. However, the editor in chief of La Plume liked it so much he...

Like Zodiac, this lithograph was originally designed to serve as the 1898 Champenois company calendar. However, its immediate popularity led to its swift publication by the...

In this poster for luxurious holidays on the Mediterranean coast, Mucha combines realistic figurative elements with highly stylised decoration. The pale female figure at the...

One of Mucha's most productive magazines collaborations was with the French magazine Cocorico, an illustrated satirical magazine which supported the new art and whose covers...

This large format poster portrays a woman with a wreath of poppies, wheat and hops in her hair holding a pint of beer. She has Slavic features and is reminiscent of the figure...

In this brilliant design by Mucha, the lady’s face appears to be in perfect repose, and the hand holding the glass seems steady; but her hair betrays her, scampering off in wild...

Mucha made two promotional posters for JOB cigarette rolling paper, both featuring a woman with exceptionally abundant hair, holding a cigarette whose smoke whirls around her...

This is Mucha’s single most famous work, though it seems impossible that such flamboyant effort would be devoted to selling cigarette papers. But the exotic tendrils of her hair...

One of Mucha’s most frequent customers was Nestlé. In 1897, the owners decided to give a special gift to Queen Victoria of Great Britain to mark her 60th Jubilee in the form of...

For this famous brand of Champagne, Mucha created a convivial scene with two young ladies and a bearded gentleman in high society regalia.

Founded by Alexandre Bisquit in 1819, Cognac Bisquit has a long history of excellence, having been noted as a favourite of King George IV and Winston Churchill. Here, Mucha...

Chocolat Idéal advertisement features a woman with an inviting and serene expression offering a cup of hot chocolate. The earthy, warm color palette in the artpiece evokes...

One of Mucha’s most personable young ladies, her hair cascading irrepressibly in one style, is offering a dish of wafers. The design of the girl’s dress incorporates sickle...

The Flirt is a classic example of his Art Nouveau style, featuring a graceful woman with flowing hair framed by ornate floral and decorative motifs. The poster blends soft...

Upon entering production in 1846, the Lefèvre-Utile biscuit company made a point of pushing a highly refined and chic image. This poster for their biscuits champagne is one of...

Mucha worked with Moët Chandon on a number of posters, catalogues, postcards and other promotional material. This poster exists in several versions. To capture the distinct...

Mucha worked with Moët Chandon on a number of posters, catalogues, postcards and other promotional material. Mucha chose a sensual blond girl in a pink dress to illustrate...

(Sarah Bernhardt - Farewell American Tour) The second variant [of the Dame aux Camelias] shows no name of the play nor of any specific theatre. At top, it advertises the fact...

Today La Tosca is known to most people only from the opera which Giacomo Puccini composed and introduced in 1900; however, for the 13 years prior to that, it was a romantic...

Mucha, brought up in an atmosphere of intense religious fervour, felt at home with sacred motifs and was adept at expressing himself through them. For Haraucourt’s La Passion,...

Sarah Bernhardt starred in the main male role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, translated into French for her by Eugène Morand and Marcel Schwob. Behind the central figure of Hamlet,...

Playwright Catulle Mendes adopted Euripides’ classical text especially for Sarah Bernhardt, depicting the Greek hero Jason, hitherto perceived as an untouchable mythological...

In Alfred de Musset’s play Lorenzaccio, Sarah Bernhardt played the male hero, Lorenzo de’ Medici, at the time of the siege of Florence by the tyrant Duke Alexander, who is...

This is the poster that made Mucha famous. The story of its creation is legendary, with many commentators arguing over its details. There is no question that Mucha himself saw...