Postcard c1918 Alphonse Mucha Ivančice Remembrance Czech Art Nouveau Rare For Sale
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Postcard c1918 Alphonse Mucha Ivančice Remembrance Czech Art Nouveau Rare: $54.95
A dreaming young woman with flowers in her hair gazes heavenward amid a swirling flock of swallows — birds of homecoming — while the towers of a Czech town shimmer ghost-like in the background, in this atmospheric Art Nouveau lithograph postcard captioned \"Ivančice\" (also spelled \"Ivančice\"), reproduced from a work by Alphonse Mucha and published by Fr. Dvořáček, bookseller of Ivančice — Mucha\'s own hometown. The card back identifies it as \"Alfons Mucha: Vzpomínka na rodné město Ivančice\" (\"Alphonse Mucha: A Remembrance of His Hometown of Ivančice\"), a deeply personal image the Czech-born Art Nouveau master created as an homage to his origins. Mailed under an Austrian 60-Heller stamp (overprinted/used in Bohemia) to Miss Anna [last name withheld] in Častolovice, Čechy (Bohemia), this card was likely sent around 1918 during the tumultuous final days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
