The Moon and the Stars: Pole Star
A museum-exhibition poster of Alphonse Mucha's The Moon and the Stars: Pole Star — Pole Star — a figure raising her hands to the night sky, from the Moon and the Stars panels — 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
- 1902
- Medium
- Colour lithograph
- Collection
- Mucha Trust / private collections; impressions in public collections
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
- Series
- The Moon and the Stars
A woman draped in deep blue stands beneath a single bright star in the night sky, her hands folded and her eyes lowered, in a tall panel bordered with a slim ornamental frame. Mucha designed the panel in Paris in 1902 as one of The Moon and the Stars, a set of four, The Moon, the Evening Star, the Pole Star and the Morning Star, issued as colour lithographs by F. Champenois. The Pole Star, fixed in the heavens while the others wheel around it, is given the stillest of the four figures. The series marks a late, sombre turn in his decorative work, with the women wrapped in dark drapery against the night rather than set among flowers, and it was among the last of the Paris panel sets before he turned to Slav subjects.
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.
