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Salon des Cent. A. Mucha by Alphonse Mucha

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Salon des Cent. A. Mucha

1897 · Exhibition poster, color lithograph · Alphonse Mucha

A Salon des Cent poster that condenses artistic self-positioning, exhibition culture, and refined public style into one sheet.

Year 1897
Medium Exhibition poster, color lithograph
Technique Color lithograph
Location Museum poster collections, archives, and private holdings
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Short object reading

Object note

This page stays close to the sheet itself: composition, historical setting, and the work's place in the archive.

Public authorship on display

This work belongs to the moment when Mucha’s own name and style had become part of the attraction. The poster no longer sells only an event; it also circulates a recognizable artistic persona.

A printed public sphere

The Salon des Cent context matters because it joins exhibition-making to the broader ecology of print. These images move across walls, magazines, and public attention, making style itself a social presence.

Place in the archive

It clarifies how Mucha’s visual language functioned not only as decoration but as a public signature within late nineteenth-century media culture.

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