A woman with closed eyes bows her head among tall pink bearded irises

A woman with auburn hair stands with her head bowed and eyes closed, her shoulders bare above a white band wrapped across her chest, a jeweled pendant hanging at its centre. A sheer pale gown falls from the band to her bare feet. She is surrounded by tall pink and mauve bearded irises on pale green stems against a pale blue-green ground; one hand reaches down among the irises and the other gathers the gown at her hip. Signed "Mucha" at the lower right.

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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