Czech Avant-Garde Art from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection

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Lot 60
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Alphonse Mucha

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Alphonse Mucha
  • Study for Hamlet (Studie pro Hamleta)
  • charcoal and pencil on paper
  • 47 by 74cm., 18½ by 29¼in. (arched top); 42 by 67cm., 26¼ by 16½in. (sight size)

Provenance

Sale: Leslie Hindman, 21 September 1992, lot 558
Purchased at the above sale

Catalogue Note

A study for Mucha's poster of 1899, depicting Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Hamlet at the Parisian theatre bearing her name. The composition in the present work focusses on the ghost of Hamlet's father, who appears behind Bernhardt in the poster.