Alphonse Mucha Lot n° 101

Alphonse Mucha Salon des Cent / XXme Exposition 1899 Original lithograph on chamois-colored wove paper, mounted on linen-backed half card. 56.6 x 40 cm (64.5 x 43.3 cm). Framed under glass. Signed and numbered 'Mucha 11' in pen and ink lower right. Copy 11 of probably only 12 copies, printed in gold, without writing. Very rare. Published in the first number of the special catalog "La Plume" (1899), and therefore printed in a small edition. Rennert and Weill state an edition of 12 copies. - The lower left corner slightly replaced, the right corner with restored inconspicuous crease. Three closed marginal tears on the right and a closed tear in the upper margin. Rennert/Weill 12, var. 2. Provenance Macklowe Gallery, New York; private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia