?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)
BISCUITS LEFÈVRE - UTILE. 1897.
24¼x17½ inches, 61½x44½ cm. F. Champenois, Paris. Condition A: minor expert restoration in margins.
"All of [Lefèvre-Utile's] designs featured the initials LU somewhere, and in this case, they are incorporated into the golden arch that protrudes into the picture. The girl's dress has a pattern of sickles and wheat, and she even has some wheat stalks in her hair, ideal to indicate the origin of the product" (Lendl p. 70).
Rennert / Weill 22, Brno 13, Gold 59 (var), Lendl p. 71 (var), Mucha Grand Palais 22 (var), Darmstadt 43 (var), Mucha / Henderson 126, Mucha / Bridges C5, Triumph des Jugendstils 26, DFP-II 632, Weill 60.
