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Sarah Bernhardt as "La Samaritaine"
Sarah Bernhardt as "La Samaritaine"

Sarah Bernhardt as "La Samaritaine"

Artist Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939)
Date1897
MediumColor lithographed poster; mounted on linen
DimensionsImage: 67 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (171.45 × 59.69 cm)
Framed: 75 1/4 × 30 inches (191.14 × 76.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Westport Fund
Object numberF62-42
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Paris: A Collage, University of Kansas, Student Union Gallery, Lawrence, KS, January 25–February 13, 1976, no 54.

 

Posters and Modern Color Prints, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 5–December 29,1985, no. 16.

 

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 16–July 28, 1996, no. 15.

 

Art of Advertising, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 22–July 17, 2011, no cat.
Provenance

Friends of Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Kansas City, MO;

 

Purchased from the Sales and Rental Gallery by Milton (1903–1980) and Barbara (née James, 1905–1996) McGreevy, Shawnee Mission, KS, by June 12, 1962;

 

Their gift, through the Westport Fund, to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1962.

Published References

Paris: A Collage, exh. cat. (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1976), unpaginated.

 

Ann Bridges, ed., Alphonse Mucha: The Complete Graphic Works (London: Academy Editions, 1980), no. A15, p. 153, as La Samaritaine.

 

Jack Rennert and Alain Weill, Alphonse Mucha: The Complete Posters and Panels (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984), no. 24, pp. 118–21, as La Samaritaine.

 

Posters and Modern Color Prints, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1985), unpaginated, as Sarah Bernhardt as “La Samaritaine”.

 

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 5, as Sarah Bernhardt as “La Samaritaine”.

 

George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460–1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 298, (repro.), as Sarah Bernhardt as “La Samaritaine”.
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