Job
Poster
1897 (printed)
1897 (printed)
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This a poster advertising Job cigarette papers. Czech-born, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) came to Paris in 1887. He was primarily a painter, taking up poster design only for financial reasons. For more than five years, however, he established his enduring reputation as a French poster artist, working in a medium that he considered ‘an art for the people’. Nevertheless, his design methods remained those of a painter. He made life studies and intervened personally at every stage of the print process.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Job (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster by Alphonse Mucha advertising 'Job' cigarette papers. France, 1897. |
| Physical description | Portrait format print of a brown-haired woman smoking in front of the word 'JOB', surrounded by a decorative border. The predominant colours are green, purple and brown, accented by a red ornament in the womans' hair. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs F. W. Templeton. Copyright ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London 1997 |
| Summary | This a poster advertising Job cigarette papers. Czech-born, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) came to Paris in 1887. He was primarily a painter, taking up poster design only for financial reasons. For more than five years, however, he established his enduring reputation as a French poster artist, working in a medium that he considered ‘an art for the people’. Nevertheless, his design methods remained those of a painter. He made life studies and intervened personally at every stage of the print process. |
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| Accession number | E.583-1953 |
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| Record created | February 6, 2003 |
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