Antique Vintage Art Nouveau painting of woman Alphonse Mucha style watercolor and gouache highlights on laid paper, 10 1/4 x 5 1/8 sheet size. This piece looks to be a study for Lady of the Camelias with Sarah Bernhardt. I don't see any markings to signify provenance. I sold another one from the consignors estate last year similar image and size with Sarah Bernhardt.
Alfons Maria Mucha[1][2] (Czech: [ˈalfons ˈmuxa] (audio speaker iconlisten); 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939),[3] known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Bohemian and Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt.[4] He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, and designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.[5]
In the second part of his career, at the age of 50, he returned to his homeland of Bohemia region in Austria and devoted himself to painting a series of twenty monumental canvases known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the Slavic peoples of the world,[3] which he painted between 1912 and 1926. In 1928, on the 10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series to the Czech nation. He considered it his most important work. It is now on display in Prague.

15.25 x 10.25 in

10 lb