Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939)
Marking(s); notes: signed in plate; 1896
Materials: paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): 79.75"h, 29.5"w; 82.25"h, 32"w frame
Additional Information: Provenance: Astrid Schenk, L'Arlequin Antiques, New York, acquired in the late 1960s-early 1970s | Private Collection, Bedford, New York. This is one of several period posters in this auction acquired from Schenk's gallery; per the consignor, all first printings. "Beginning in the mid-1890s, French actress and theatre director Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) commissioned Alphonse Mucha to design several posters to promote her appearances in the two Paris theatres that she owned and operated. Two of the best known, 'Lorenzaccio' and 'Hamlet', depict Bernhardt in the powerful male leading roles for which she achieved acclaim in the later decades of her career." (source: New York Public Library, nypl.org)

good/average, undulation and creasing throughout, staining primarily in margins, not examined outside frame (condition of art only)

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