A poppy-crowned woman rests at the water's edge in summer light

A woman rests her cheek against her raised hand, a wreath of large red poppies in her loose brown hair, which coils around a leafy branch beside her. Her ivory gown slips off one shoulder, baring her back as she sits on a rock at the water's edge, one bare foot dipping into the water below. A tall green plant with broad leaves rises in the foreground beneath a sky shifting from pale blue-green to soft peach. Signed Mucha at the lower left; part of a four-panel Seasons series, 1896.

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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