Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) - The Arts: Painting - Signed Original lithograph - First printing - Art Nouveau - 1898 Dimenssion of lithograph: 14 x 9.2 cm Signed in the plate. Printed no later than 1899 Fold in two corners: top left and bottom right. Dated March 13, 1899 Published by F. Champenois Imprimeur-Éditeur, Paris Clear printing with well-preserved colors. Rare Mucha Lithograph Antique Art Nouveau. Signed in the plate and created 1898. Note: see Bowers & Martin 427. Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period. In the second part of his career, at the age of 57, he returned to his homeland and devoted himself to a series of twenty monumental symbolist canvases known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the Slavic peoples of the world, which he painted between 1912 and 1926. In 1928, on the 10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series to the Czech nation. He considered it his most important work.