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Mucha, restored for print
Alphonse Mucha died in 1939, and his work has been out of copyright across the markets we sell in for more than a decade. We restore his posters and panels from archival scans and sell them as 190+ finished prints in four formats. Twelve, chosen and annotated by the studio, are below.
LumenArtee is our own Etsy storefront — one of the three shops this studio runs. Every sale funds the next restoration.How we restore ·our open ledger
The icons, restored
Zodiac, 1896
Drawn as a house calendar for his printer, then bought by the review La Plume — this is that state, header and month-grid intact. The twelve sign medallions sit in a grey-blue ring that goes murky in most files; here each one stays legible.
Paris · four formats
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JOB, 1896
The cigarette-paper poster with the swirling hair critics nicknamed 'macaroni'. On the violet ground the gold coils do all the work — recovered clean, they hold their line even at the largest print sizes.
Paris · four formats
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Summer (Été), 1896
The panel that carries his first Seasons set — bare feet in the water, poppies in her hair. Everything depends on the cobalt sky behind her, and most circulating copies have faded it to grey; ours came back deep.
The Seasons · four formats
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Rêverie, 1897
Made as the printer Champenois's calendar page for 1898, and admired into a decorative panel of its own. The ring of pink blossom against deep teal is the test — cheap files melt it into one rose smear.
Paris · four formats
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Bières de la Meuse, 1897
Poppies, barley and hop vines piled into one improbable crown — a brewery commission treated like a decorative panel. The sky-blue lettering tips toward navy in tired copies; it reads bright here.
Paris · four formats
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Dance, 1898
The one panel of The Arts caught mid-motion, hem and petals still travelling. The set was printed in soft silvers and ochres with almost no true black, so depth lives in small tonal steps — exactly what restoration protects.
The Arts · four formats
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Deeper into the catalogue
Six more, in the order he designed them — the Paris seasons to the late panels.
Salon des Cent: XXth Exhibition, 1896
His invitation for the print gallery at 31 rue Bonaparte, March 1896 — a veiled girl holding quill and brush as the house muse. Nearly the whole design is one flat gold ink; when a scan drifts it turns khaki. This one didn't.
Salon des Cent · four formats
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Monaco · Monte-Carlo, 1897
A railway poster with no train in it: the P.L.M. sold the Riviera as a girl kneeling in spring, ringed by wreaths that curl like carriage wheels. The lilac and coral circles keep their separate colours here.
Paris · four formats
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Pater Noster, 1899
The opening page of Le Pater, his illustrated Lord's Prayer — the book he most wanted to be judged by, shown at the 1900 Paris World's Fair. Its parchment pinks are quiet on purpose; restoring it meant keeping them clean, not loud.
Le Pater · four formats
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Étoile du Soir, 1902
The Evening Star folds into her own drapery as the sky burns down to umber. The whole picture happens in browns a half-step apart, which is why dull copies lose the figure entirely — kept apart, she glows.
The Moon and the Stars · four formats
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The Introduction of the Slavonic Liturgy, 1912
Among the first Slav Epic canvases finished at Zbiroh, painted in tempera at mural scale. The saints hover in blue above a crowd rendered almost without outline — printed wide, those floating figures keep their edges.
Slav Epic · four formats
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Zdeňka Černý, 1913
A Prague-printed poster for the young Czech cellist, shown with her score in hand rather than mid-performance; the world tour it announced was cancelled by the war. The big letter block below is half the design, and it comes back crisp.
Prague · four formats
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The rest of the room
The works above are a taste — the catalogue holds 190+ Mucha works. Browse it by subject:
Choosing a format
Rolled poster
The cheapest way in — pick it if you already own a frame or want one chosen for the room, not the shipment.
Framed paper
Arrives ready to hang, glass over paper — the classic museum-print look, and the safest default for most rooms.
Stretched canvas
No glass, no glare — texture close to a painting's, and a natural fit for painterly surfaces.
Framed canvas
The canvas texture with a finished edge — the most furniture-like of the four, and the largest sizes live here.
Prices vary by size and format; every listing shows all options in your own currency. Undecided? Ourprint format guidecompares the four honestly.
From the journal
Why is this work free to print in the first place?Mucha and the public domain — the full guide →