Fruit (Decorative Panel)
A museum-exhibition poster of Alphonse Mucha's Fruit — Fruit — a figure cradling grapes and autumn fruit beneath an arched frame, the companion to Flower — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Art Nouveau and The Belle Époque, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print.
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About this work
- Artist
- Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939)
- Year
- 1897
- Medium
- Colour lithograph
- Original size
- 66.2 × 44.4 cm
- Collection
- Mucha Trust / private collections; impressions in public collections
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
A woman seen from the side, irises in her hair, turns toward the viewer with an armful of grapes, pears, apples and soft fruits, in a panel framed by a decorative border. Mucha designed Fruit in Paris in 1897 for the printer F. Champenois, who issued it as a colour lithograph together with a companion panel, Flower, in the same format. It belongs to the first years of his exclusive contract with Champenois, when the success of The Seasons had shown that decorative panels sold without advertising text could be a business in their own right. The abundance of the harvest and the figure's half-turned pose are typical of his work of the period, as is the combination of a naturalistic head with flattened, patterned drapery. The pair was reissued in several sizes.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
