?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)
ZDENKA CERNY. 1913.
39½x40½ inches, 100¼x102¾ cm. V. Neubert Smichov, Prague. Condition A- / B+: printers' creases in lower right image; slight foxing in image. Margins trimmed off; hand-signed by Cerny in lower right corner. Without text sheet. Framed.
Zdenka Cerny was one of three daughters from the family with whom Mucha lived in Chicago in 1906. A prodigal cellist, 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, Brno 65, 150th Mucha 263, Mucha / Japan 132, Sarah Mucha p. 92, Mucha / Henderson 108, Mucha / Bridges A63, Jiri Mucha p. 224, Spirit of Art Nouveau 39 (var).
