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Art Nouveau - Mucha-25, Postcard 1900-05 [186010]

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Art Nouveau - Mucha-25, Postcard  1900-05 [186010]
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This is a postcard designed by Alphonse Mucha, c1900-05. No. 486. Banquet Menu. R-5. Vertical design occupies nearly all of the card. Lady in pink dress with hands in her lap sits in a large vertical circle frame. Belle Jardiniere advertising on back as used on cards with the front printed with an advertisement of the Paris department store - "Souvenir de la Belle Jardiniere; 2, Rue DuPont-Neuf, Paris." Unused. Light staining on corners due to being in an album, otherwise clean.
This postcard is an adaptation of a menu designed by Mucha for the March 1, 1898 banquet given for M. deMontholon and Maurice Monthiers, who earlier had been associated with an exhibit at the 1897 Brussels Exposition.
It is one in the 5th Series which incorporates several single cards, a group of three covers for Cocorico magazine, and a group of menu designs. The cards in the 5th, 6th and 7th series are scarcer than those in the preceding series, possibly because of their "miscellaneous" nature. It also could be due to the declining popularity of Art Nouveau postcards at the time. One authority has written that the year 1900 marked the peak of popularity of "le style Mucha."
(Info: "The Postcards of Alphonse Mucha," Q. David Bowers & Mary L. Martin, 1981.)
For more information on Alphonse Mucha's life, and the Art Nouveau movement, see Lot #185466, Mucha-1.

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