Alphonse Mucha Posters and Decorative Panels

Alphonse Mucha's best-known posters and decorative panels, shown large enough to study the line work, lettering, halos and borders that made his style the face of Art Nouveau. Each photo is one work: the theater posters he made for Sarah Bernhardt, his advertising for clients such as JOB, Moët & Chandon and the P.L.M. railway, the decorative panels printed to hang on walls rather than paste on them, and a few of the Czech posters he made after returning home. The order follows his career, from the 1894 Gismonda that made his name to his Prague posters of 1911. Where a design exists in several versions, the caption says which one is shown. The Slav Epic paintings are left out, since they are a different kind of work.