"(Alphonse) Mucha is well known as a flag-bearer of Art Nouveau. But actually he became so unintentionally and he didn't like it ," Tomoko Sato, curator at Mucha Foundation, said.

Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a ... There’s much to gaze at in Mucha’s pictures.

On Christmas Eve 1894, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), a Czech junior designer working alone in a Parisian print shop, received a rush order from actress Sarah Bernhardt for a poster advertising her ...