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Unknown Mystery French Art Nouveau Mucha Alphonse Picture (on glass?) Original? | Posters and Prints706 of 1566 |  |  |
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I have this framed Mucha print and it doesn't look like a lithograph and it is very rich color, almost to colorful. It looks like a painting on glass but I am not sure. It measures about 23" tall by 16" wide (approximately). Could anyone please help me out with some more information about this piece; age, period, maker, country of origin, value, name of items, process used to make it, etc?
Thanks a bunch, all input is appreciated.
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Art Nouveau GraphicsColor lithography became popular in the 1880s, about the same time as the A…
PrintsPrintmaking is a very old art form, dating, in the case of woodblock prints…
This is not by Mucha's hand. The piece is reproducing two well known Mucha posters and looks like it is a student project or something. If you can separate the glass from the frame, you should be able to tell if it is paint on glass. I suspect this was done in the 1970s. There was a surge of interest in the Art Nouveau movement around that period and many of the original posters and design pieces were copied at the time.