{"product_id":"mucha-laurel-1901-art-nouveau-panel","title":"Mucha Laurel 1901 | Art Nouveau Decorative Panel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA woman's profile occupies a circular medallion at the centre of the sheet, its background modelled in close-set mosaic tilework, ochre, umber and sage, arranged in the scroll-and-lozenge patterns Mucha borrowed from Byzantine apse decoration. Her auburn hair is dressed with laurel leaves, a pink ribbon and a single green-and-yellow flower; long terracotta-rose ribbons fall behind her. Surrounding the medallion, a dense rectangular field of grey-green laurel foliage on ivory completes a composition that reads as much as a decorative object as an illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned in 1901 and printed by Imp. F. Champenois in Paris, Laurel is one of a textless pair, the companion piece is Ivy, belonging to the genre Mucha and Champenois developed together: the panneau décoratif, a poster without commercial text, made for the sole purpose of decorating interior walls. The Mucha Foundation catalogues it as a colour lithograph, 53 x 39.5 cm; the Philadelphia Museum of Art holds an example in its prints collection. The design shares its formal vocabulary with Mucha's Byzantine Heads series of 1897: profile within a circular halo, mosaic ground, architectural foliate border. In Laurel the palette is held to a quieter, silvery register, sage, ivory, ochre and rose, that gives the image a gentler presence than the more saturated Byzantine works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced from a high-resolution archival source on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper, using pigment-based inks for lasting colour fidelity. The matte surface and natural white tone of the paper complement the restrained palette of the original lithograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResonates with collectors of Belle Époque graphic art, those drawn to the formal geometry of Art Nouveau interior decoration, and anyone who values the decorative panel as a design form in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Poster Archives","offers":[{"title":"A4","offer_id":64237334921593,"sku":"VPA-13677-A4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3","offer_id":64237334954361,"sku":"VPA-13677-A3","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":64237334987129,"sku":"VPA-13677-A2","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70cm","offer_id":64237335019897,"sku":"VPA-13677-50x70cm","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":64237335052665,"sku":"VPA-13677-A1","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100cm","offer_id":64237335085433,"sku":"VPA-13677-70x100cm","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0","offer_id":64237335118201,"sku":"VPA-13677-A0","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1139\/4937\/files\/Advertising-Mucha-LaurelMedallion-1901.jpg?v=1786629708","url":"https:\/\/vintageposterarchives.com\/products\/mucha-laurel-1901-art-nouveau-panel","provider":"Vintage Poster Archives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}