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La Tribuna. 1897. Giovanni Mataloni.

54 5/8 x 79 in./138.3 x 207 cm

La Tribuna, personified, bends over the shadowed Earth, about to inscribe upon the new day with a quill. From her tapestried dress, we gaze upward to her feather-winged headdress – as if Mercury’s winged sandals had become Shakespeare’s “wings of imagination and speed of thought.” A superb work of art, right down to the typography, features imagery and chiaroscuro familiar to fans of Metlicovitz and Dudovich. But Mataloni preceded both of those colleagues at Ricordi, where he arrived in 1890. Mataloni’s famous Brevetto Auer poster brought Art Nouveau to Italy in 1895; this magnificent piece returns us to the Italian Renaissance.

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Zodiac. 1896. Alphonse Mucha.

19 ½ x 26 in./49.5 x 66 cm

Zodiac “turned out to be one of [Mucha’s] most successful designs … The editor of La Plume liked it so much that he bought it for his magazine almost immediately and started giving it wide publicity … Mucha’s customary circular background here serves the functional role of carrying the symbols of the zodiac. The ornamental shapes and patterns around the perimeter are worked out with a precision and attention to detail unusual even for a meticulous artist like Mucha” (Rennert/Weill, p. 100). This is the original version before the addition of any advertising text or calendarium.