The Flowers: Carnation
A museum-exhibition poster of Alphonse Mucha's The Flowers: Carnation — Carnation — a figure in rose-red with a carnation, one of the four tall Flowers 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
- 1898
- Medium
- Colour lithograph
- Collection
- Mucha Trust / private collections; impressions in public collections
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
- Series
- The Flowers
A dark-haired woman in a pink gown holds a single carnation to her face, with pink, white and yellow carnations massed at her feet in a tall, narrow panel. Mucha designed The Flowers in Paris in 1898 for the printer F. Champenois, who issued the four designs, Rose, Iris, Carnation and Lily, as colour lithographs for framing. Each flower is matched to a woman whose colouring and bearing suggest its character: the carnation, warm and spicy, is given the darkest hair and the richest colour of the set. The panels are more naturalistic than his posters, with the plants drawn from life and the ornament kept to a slim border. The series sold out fast enough that Champenois printed a reduced version with all four on one sheet, and it has remained in print for over a century.
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.
