A dancer's auburn hair streams as petals fall around her bare back

Seen from behind, a bare-backed woman dances within a roundel of gold, wheel-like medallions, her long auburn hair streaming out around her, with a pink rose and a strand of pearls in her hair. Her salmon-orange gown, gathered at the hips, swirls and billows below her as loose petals scatter through the air. A large pale golden flower with a brown centre fills each upper corner among outlined winged insects. Signed Mucha, 98 at the lower right; part of a four-panel Arts series.

Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) created the look of Art Nouveau almost overnight with his 1894 poster for Sarah Bernhardt's Gismonda. Through the following decade in Paris his theatre bills, advertising panels and decorative series — the Seasons, the Flowers, the Times of Day — set women in halos of stylised ornament, pale colour and flowing hair. He later devoted himself to the Slav Epic, a cycle of twenty monumental canvases. His work is held by the Mucha Museum in Prague and the Musée d'Orsay.

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