LOT DETAILS

Materials:

sculpture in patinated bronze and malachite

Measurements:

27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (height) by 10.63 in. (27.00 cm.) (width) by 11.02 in. (28.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Mucha, with foundry mark Pinedo Paris and stamped Bronze Garanti au Titre - Paris

Literature:

Exposition Internationale Universelle de 1900 , Official general catalogue, Second Volume, Group II, Works of Art, Classes 7 to 10, Paris, n.d., listed p. 296. Abel Fulcran César Fabre, "Mucha Un Maître Décorateur: Après une visite au Pavillon de Bosnie",. Le Mois Littéraire et Pittoresque , May 1900, p. 584 for a period photograph. Charles Masson, "Mucha",. Zlata Praha , n. 50, 1900, p. 592 for a period photograph. "French Artist Comes Here to Boom American Art",. The New York Times , December 24, 1905, p. 6 for a period photograph. . For the example previously in the Valentine Abdy collection and in the Robert Walker collection, currently in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts:. "La vie des objets. Un second buste de Mucha retrouvé",. Connaissance des Arts , January 1965, p. 11 . . Un maître de l'Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha , exhibition catalogue, Bibliothèque Forney, Paris, March 3 - April 23, 1966, pl. 52, . Jiri Mucha, Marina Henderson and Aaron Scharf,. Alfonse Mucha, Posters and Photographs , New York, 1971, p. 35, figures 25-26 . . Art Nouveau Belgium France , exhibition catalogue, Rice Museum, Houston, March 26 - June 27, 1976 and The Art Institue of Chicago, August 28 - October 31, 1976, p. 276, cat. n. 439. Alastair Duncan,. Art Nouveau Sculpture , London, 1978, frontispiece. Frederick R. Brandt,. Late 19th and Early 20th Century Decorative Art : The Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond, 1985, pp. 68-69. Alastair Duncan,. Art Nouveau , London, 1994, p. 190, fig. 154. Renate Ulmer,. Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich , Stuttgart, 1999, pp. 57, 60 and 76, cat. n. 64 . Paul Greenhalgh et al.,. Art Nouveau 1890-1914 , London, 2000, pp. 66-67 and 259 fig. 3.15 . For the example of the Gillion Crowet collection, currently exhibited in the collection of the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Belgium: Philippe Garner, "The Bronzes of Alfonse Mucha", Art at Auction : The Year at Sotheby's & Parke-Bernet 1971-1972 , New York, pp. 432-437 Michel Draguet, Treasures of Art Nouveau, Through the Collections of Anne-Marie Gillion , Milan, 1999, cover, pp. 88, 98-103 . For the example of the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe: Mucha 1860-1939, peintures, illustrations, affiches, arts décoratifs , exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, February 5 - April 28, 1980, cat. n. 145 Alphonse Mucha , exhibition catalogue, Musée du Belvédère, Vienna, February 12 - June 1, 2009, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, June 20 - September 20, 2009, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, October 9, 2009 - January 24, 2010, p. 185 . For the example previously in the Victor Arwas collection and currently in the collection of Sakai Government, Japan: Jiri Mucha, Alphonse Maria Mucha : His Life and Art , New York, 1989, pp. 162-163 John Hoole and Tomoko Sato, Alphonse Mucha , London, 1993, p. 19, fig. 8 Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Art Nouveau , Cologne, 1997, pp. 90-91 Victor Arwas et al ., Alphonse Mucha, The Spirit of Art Nouveau , Alexandria, Virginia, 1998, pp. 78-81, fig. 1 Sarah Mucha et al., Alphonse Mucha : A l'occasion de la création du Musée Mucha, Prague , Paris, 2000, pp. 14-15

Provenance:

Private European collection