MUSEUM PIECE French Art Nouveau Maiden Gilt Bronze Jewelry by Alphonse Mucha

Description: * ITEM DESCRIPTION Amazing & Unique Museum Piece. French Art Nouveau Jewelry Box by Alphonse Mucha, ca 1890. Wonderful hand-crafted gilt bronze on hand hammered copper featuring Maiden faces surrounded by leaves and flowers on each side. Standing on four winged ladies foots with light green beveled interior. Not signed. Measuring 24 cm long by 14 cm high by 15 cm wide. An absolute most for collectors! Alphonse Mucha, original name Alfons Maria Mucha, (born July 24, 1860, Ivančice, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic]—died July 14, 1939, Prague, Czechoslovakia), Art Nouveau illustrator and painter noted for his posters of idealized female figures. After early education in Brno, Moravia, and work for a theatre scene-painting firm in Vienna, Mucha studied art in Prague, Munich, and Paris in the 1880s. He first became prominent as the principal advertiser of the actress Sarah Bernhardt in Paris. He designed the posters for several theatrical productions featuring Bernhardt, beginning with Gismonda (1894), and he designed sets and costumes for her as well. Mucha designed many other posters and magazine illustrations, becoming one of the foremost designers in the Art Nouveau style. His supple, fluent draftsmanship is used to great effect in his posters featuring women. His fascination with the sensuous aspects of female beauty—luxuriantly flowing strands of hair, heavy-lidded eyes, and full-lipped mouths—as well as his presentation of the female image as ornamental, reveal the influence of the English Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic on Mucha, particularly the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The sensuous bravura of the draftsmanship, particularly the use of twining, whiplash lines, imparts a strange refinement to his female figures. Between 1903 and 1922 Mucha made four trips to the United States, where he attracted the patronage of Charles Richard Crane, a Chicago industrialist and Slavophile, who subsidized Mucha’s series of 20 large historical paintings illustrating the “Epic of the Slavic People” (1912–30). After 1922 Mucha lived in Czechoslovakia, and he donated his “Slavic Epic” paintings to the city of Prague. Art Nouveau, ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States. Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration. It was a deliberate attempt to create a new style, free of the imitative historicism that dominated much of 19th-century art and design. About this time the term Art Nouveau was coined, in Belgium by the periodical L’Art Moderne to describe the work of the artist group Les Vingt and in Paris by S. Bing, who named his gallery L’Art Nouveau. The style was called Jugendstil in Germany, Sezessionstil in Austria, Stile Floreale (or Stile Liberty) in Italy, and Modernismo (or Modernista) in Spain. * SHIPPING: Will ship worldwide via Fedex (aprox. 3-4 days for delivery) from MIAMI, we arrange proper packaging and ship the merchandise according to the shipping option chosen and paid by buyer. Shipping Cost: US$ 59.00 by Fedex. * PAYMENT METHODS ACCEPTED: * eBay Other payment methods not mentioned here, are not honored. * TERMS AND CONDITIONS: We try to present the merchandise as accurately as possible. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate in contact us! *GOOD LUCK*

Price: 5990 USD

Location: Hollywood, Florida

End Time: 2023-09-26T02:36:54.000Z

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