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Moët & Chandon — White Star, 1899

Name: Moët & Chandon — White Star, 1899
Brand: The Lost Bar
SKU: PA-00550

Alphonse Mucha, 1899

The Lost BarPA-00550Tear sheet

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 53% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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Alphonse Mucha's decorative panel advertising Moët & Chandon's White Star champagne — a woman wreathed in roses, drawn in the full Art Nouveau line Mucha built his name on. Moët & Chandon is a live mark; this piece is sold strictly as art history, the poster and not the pour. Mucha designed a pair of panels for the house in 1899, at the height of his advertising work. The rose motif repeating from the border into her hair — Mucha binding the ornament to the figure until neither reads without the other. The house still pours. The poster is still just paper.

Maker: Alphonse Mucha
Date: 1899
Medium of the original: Poster
Original held by: Art Renewal Center Museum
Credit: Art Renewal Center Museum · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00550

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 53% crop
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 43% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 52% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 50% crop
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 43% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 53% crop
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 43% crop
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 50% crop
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 43% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 53% crop
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 43% crop
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 50% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 50% crop
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 43% crop