Carnation Art Nouveau Portrait by Alphonse Mucha Poster

Carnation c1898 Art Nouveau Portrait by Czech Painter Alphonse Mucha (1860 - 1939); as well as an accomplished Illustrator and Graphic Artist who was a major force of the Art Nouveau Period; known for his stylized, ornate and decorative theatrical posters. Carnation is a beautiful art nouveau portrait of a young lady dressed in a pink flowing bear shoulder and open back gown with a gold belt wrapped around her waist. She is standing in a garden looking partly back at the viewer, with a rich assortment of flowers about her and a large leafless tree to her right. She is holding a red flower in her right hand close to her face and with her left hand is holding up the trailing part of her dress; and in the background is a swirling blue and yellow sky with a large yellow oval representing the sun. This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.