Stunning Mucha art nouveau Job cigarette mirror, featuring an elegant lady wearing a glamorous luscious green dress, background in an intricate vintage, rouge coloured pattern design and a stand-out bold font in enchanting tones, superb border, and further beautiful fonts at the bottom.
Alphonse Mucha's artwork for Job cigarette advertising is titled "Job Cigarettes" or "Job Rolling Papers." He was commissioned to create this advertisement in the late 19th century, and it has become one of his iconic works.
It's a gorgeous Mucha artwork piece.
It comes with a sleek aluminium frame and backing insert.
Excellent vintage condition with minimal signs of authentic patina.
Height: 37cm
Length: 32cm
Width: 2cm
“Job (Cigarettes)” or “La Femme Blonde”
This colour lithograph is by the Czech and Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha. It is most often referred to as “Job (Cigarettes)”, though its original name is “La Femme Blonde”. It was created in 1896 as an advertisement for the Job Cigarette Rolling Paper Company. Mucha made two advertising posters for this French company. Both art pieces featured smoke swirling around a woman’s head, whose long, flowing hair was also swirling.
The woman’s hair, wild and swirling through a play of ornate interweaving lines, is a typical Mucha style feature. When this was created, women generally did not smoke in public and usually wore their hair up, making this a daring and wild piece. The geometric shape repeated in the background is the company’s logo.
Mucha’s posters for the Job cigarette paper company were so successful that people purchased lithograph copies to display as art. In addition to Mucha, the Job company used several artists to create ads for its product, including Jane Atché, Jules Chéret, and Georges Meunier.