Description
Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939) Original Lithograph 1913 – Very Large –
“Zdenka Cerny” The Greatest Bohemian Violincellist
Prague, Czechoslovak
Color lithograph
Signed and dated “Mucha, 1913” within the plate (lower left)
72 1/2 x 42 inches (sight)
79 1/2 x 50 inches (frame)
COA from Avantiques accompany this original and rare Mucha lithograph.
Provenance: Private Collection, Warren, New Jersey
Condition: A, Very good overall condition with no damage or repair. There are a few minor crease marks.
ZDENKA CERNY. 1913.
V. Neubert Smichov, Prague.
Condition A: minor creases in margins and image. Two-sheets, framed separately. Paper. Unexamined out of frames.
Zdenka Cerny was one of three daughters from the family with whom Mucha lived in Chicago in 1906. A prodigigal chellist, she was slated to go on a European tour in 1914, but the tour was canceled due to the outbreak of World War I. While “the Art Nouveau ornamentation is virtually absent, other than a circle of stylized fleurs-de-lis in white behind Zdenka, and a similar white-outline garland around her cello,” Mucha’s style is present in the woman’s hair and the collar of her dress (Rennert / Weill p. 346). Rennert / Weill 102, Lendl p. 280
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