Lot 71
  • 71

Alphonse Mucha

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alphonse Mucha
  • Young Woman with Folk Headdress (ŽENA S POKRÝVKOU HLAVY)
  • signed Mucha and dedicated To my dear friend J. Pod...ský, Mucha 3-12-1913 lower right

  • blue crayon on paper
  • 34.5 by 28cm., 13½ by 11 in.
  • 34.5 x 28 cm

Provenance

Galerie Pictura, Prague
Purchased from the above on 5 November  2001

Literature

Jiří Hlušička, The Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art, Prague, 2004, p. 208, no. D162, catalogued; p. 17, pl. 4, illustrated

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. Apart from a dent to the lower left quarter, and a spot of foxing along the right edge,this work is in good condition.
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