La Dame aux Camelia Wood Print

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This is a reproduction of Alphonse Mucha's poster of 1896 advertising Sarah Bernhardt's role in the adaptation for the stage of Alexandre Dumas' novel Lady of the Camelias. The novel of 1848 was a great success and Verdi adapted it and created La Traviata in 1853. An English translation of the play is known as Camille. Mucha was a native of Ivancice, Moravia having been born in 1860 in the Austrian Empire. This is presently within the Czech Republic and Mucha was Czech by nationality. Prior to 1887 he worked in Moravia and Vienna and in that year he began his studies at the Academie Julian and Academie Colarossi, both in Paris. Late in 1894 he happened across a sudden need for a poster for Sarah Bernhardt opening a play at the Teatre de la Renaissance. He produced a poster by January 1, 1895 and began a six year contract with Bernardt. He was an immediate commercial success and his unique compositions soon came to be known as the "Mucha Style". It was soon re-christened Art Nouveau and...

Troy Caperton was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1949. Raised in South Louisiana from 1953, he graduated from Baylor University in 1976 and pursued a Masters in History at the University of Louisiana until 1988 when he moved to Austin, Texas. For over ten years Caperton has been selling his original art and reproductions of original work and the masters through various portals on the Internet. One of his works won a Juror’s Prize at Austin’s Art Erotica in 2010. He has always been employed in helping positions and continues to produce works for the enjoyment of the public.