Poster: JOB Cigarette Papers
Artist/Culture
Alphonse Mucha
(Czech, 1860–1939)
Date1897
Mediumcolor lithograph
Dimensions142 x 91.7 cm (55 7/8 x 36 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Johnson
Object number1980.8
Label TextMucha’s female subjects broadly range from maternal nurturers to refined libertines—like the woman seen here who is sophisticated enough to roll her own cigarette. Mucha’s art astutely blends a modern consumer activity with otherworldly decorative elements, like this woman’s abundant brunette tendrils and classically draped dress. The company’s signature logo of the letters J and B intertwined by a diamond, forms the brooch on the woman’s dress and produces an endlessly repeating decorative element in the background. The goddess as spokesperson signaled the “Mucha Style,” a term used interchangeably with Art Nouveau in the 1890s.On View
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