Mucha moved from ads to Slavic folk art and myth

This oil on canvas of a white-robed young couple by the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was sold for $800,000 (£601,505) in Chicago on December 2.

Mucha, who was born in what is now the Czech Republic, is known to many for his posters and other …

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