Alphonse Mucha
1918 – 1928
Date: 1928
Colour lithograph, brush and spatter
Artist’s signature bottom right
Size: 83 cm x 121 cm
Printer: K. Kříž, Prague
Official poster celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1928.
A young girl represents the young Czechoslovak Republic. The headband and flowers symbolize the different regions of the new republic such as: Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia.
This poster is similar in style to the paintings commissioned by Charles Richard Crane, a Chicago industrialist: Slav Epic (1909-1928).