GISMONDA

Alphonse Mucha
GISMONDA
lithograph
June 1896

June 1896

Original lithograph printed in colors on wove paper

Signed on the stone lower left Mucha.

A superb impression of the definitive state, from the edition on this paper (there was also a small edition printed on Japan paper).  Transcribed from Mucha’s 1894 poster of the same title by artisans at Atelier Chéret and issued as plate 27 (of 256) in the series Le Maîtres de l’Affiche, bearing the blindstamp of the program (Lugt 1777c) in the sheet lower right.  Published by Jules Chéret; printed at Impremiere Chaix (Atelier Chéret), Paris.

Catalog: Masters of the Poster pl. 27.