Medea Wood Print

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This is a reproduction of Alphonse Mucha's poster of 1898 advertising Sarah Bernhardt's role in Medea, the Greek tragic masterpiece of 431 BCE by Euripides. This poster is a radical departure for Mucha whose works usually depict women in muted colors and surrounded by soft and sensual floral displays and flowing veils and robes. In this poster the demented Medea is shown with maddened eyes holding a blood-encrusted dagger. There is a dead figure at her feat, perhaps one of her children. Many consider this as Mucha's most powerful depiction. 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...

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.