Waverley Cycles
1898 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939)
- Year
- 1898
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 86 × 115 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
A young woman with loose hair leans on the handlebars of a bicycle, a laurel branch in her hand and a halo of wheels behind her, on a horizontal sheet lettered Waverley Cycles with the Paris address of the maker's agent. Mucha designed the poster in 1898 for the Waverley bicycles of the Indiana Bicycle Company, sold in France by Harry Reinaud, and it is one of his rare landscape-format designs. The deep red ground and the pale figure are printed by F. Champenois, Paris. The impression reproduced is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A deep red horizontal sheet with a pale figure and laurel, for a hallway, garage or above a sideboard at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black or dark wood, no mat. It suits a white or dark red wall and pairs with Cycles Perfecta.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Art Nouveau painting
- Era
- 19th century (1898)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- dining room, hallway or entryway, living room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, anniversary, her, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
