No. 04 — Alphonse Mucha
JOB
| Artist | Alphonse Mucha, 1860–1939 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1896 |
| Medium | colour lithograph poster (approx. 66.7 × 46.4 cm) |
| City | Paris |
| Location | Advertising poster for Joseph Bardou & Cie; impressions held by museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Cleveland Museum of Art |
Mucha's celebrated advertisement for JOB rolling papers shows a woman with cascading hair reacting to a swirl of smoke, the monogram set in a Byzantine-style border.
Produced in 1896 for the Joseph Bardou paper company, it became one of the most reproduced posters of the era and fixed the 'Mucha woman' as an icon of commercial art.
A revised version appeared around 1897.
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Smoke curls through a woman's streaming hair in gold and brown, framed by a mosaic border bearing the word JOB.
The companion piece
Smoke curls through a woman's streaming hair in gold and brown, framed by a mosaic border bearing the word JOB. The algorithm runs live above; when WebGL sleeps, the drawn still takes its place.
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