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Artist Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860–1939)

Date1896

Mediumcolor lithograph on cream wove paper

Dimensionsimage: 51.6 x 39 cm (20 5/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
sheet: 66.7 x 46.5 cm (26 1/4 x 18 5/16 in.)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineGift of Dr. Lawrence M. Epstein and Ms. Jeanne Griffin

Terms

Object number2007.174

Label TextEnraptured in pleasure, this seductive siren’s unkempt hair mingles with the smokey haze created by her cigarette, an activity still widely reserved for men. Illustrating an autoerotic response—head tipped back, eyes nearly closed, and lips slightly parted—this poster likens female desire with consumer desires, commonly seen in advertising today. Mucha manages to create this sexually unrestrained woman in a veil of dreamlike fantasy—most evident in her exaggerated, swirling hair—a motif contemporary critics referred to as “Mucha’s macaroni”.

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