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LUDEK MAROLD (1865-1898) THES DE LA PORTE CHINOISE. 1895. 59x431/2 inches. Lemercier, Paris. Condition B+: creases and repaired tears along vertical and horizontal folds. Ludek Marold and Alphonse Mucha lived parallel lives. Both born in Czechoslovakia, they met and became friends while studying art together in Vienna. In 1889 Marold received a grant to study in Paris, and Mucha followed him one year later. Marold was a talented illustrator and it was most likely he who introduced Mucha to the French magazines that gave him his first commissions. One can also imagine, that later it was Mucha who recommended Marold to Lemercier, to print his first poster. Marold also designed several posters in his native Czechoslovakia, but his total output was small, given that he died in 1898 at the age of 33. In this rare poster, Marold has drafted a very delicate drawing of an ostensibly Chinese woman completely clothed in Oriental apparel. She is holding a box of tea in one hand, and Marold cleverly presents the typography as part of her parasol. DFP II 565.
