78 x 30-1/4 in
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In 1894, Mucha was hired at the 11th hour to design a poster for Sarah Bernhardt in her starring role in Gismonda. He depicted her as she appeared in the last act, a Byzantine princess robed in gold and precious stones with a coronet of orchids in the cathedral of Athens on Palm Sunday. His regal presentation so pleased "the divine Sarah" that she awarded Mucha an exclusive six-year contract to design her posters.
This same poster with different lettering was reprinted by the Strobridge Lithography Company in Cincinnati to promote Bernhardt's triumphant American tour in 1896.
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