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Fine art print print of the famous Art Nouveau decorative panel titled
Byzantine Heads: The Blonde by the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha. The original artwork was created in 1897, but this specific print features the year "1900" printed at the top, likely indicating it is a calendar variation or a later reproduction.
Artwork Details
Artist: Alphonse Mucha
Title: Byzantine Heads: The Blonde (part of a pair with a "Brunette" version)
Style: Art Nouveau
Original Date: 1897
Medium: Decorative panel (lithograph)
Description
The artwork depicts a woman in profile with long, flowing blonde hair, set against a circular, intricate background of floral and vegetal arabesques. She is adorned with elaborate, Byzantine-inspired jewelry, including a jeweled white scarf and an ornate metal disk fringed with pearls in her hair. The design was very popular and used in various formats, including the calendar version seen here. Mucha's highly original designs in this series convinced jeweler Georges Fouquet to commission the artist for his collection at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. |
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