Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
MUCHA, ALPHONSE. Le Pater. Latin and French text. Tinted lithographed title in several colors, 8 chromolithographed plates with text of the Lord's Prayer, 7 sepia plates, and 7 plates of commentary with tinted borders, color decorations, all by Mucha. Folio, 3/4 plum morocco over marbled boards; gilt-lettered spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; original pictorial wrappers bound in, a few leaves near front becoming loose. Paris, (1899)
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number 142 of 400 copies on papier à la forme du Marais. A masterpiece of Art Nouveau which Mucha regarded as one of his most successful and significant works. The series contains 23 images illustrating the Lord''s Prayer; each of the seven verses contain 3 full-page graphic plates in addition to an illustrated title-page and final leaf.