Alfons Mucha - Portrait of a Girl 1929, coloured pencil on paper, cutout of a passe-partout: 46 x 36 cm, signed and dated lower right: Mucha/1929 Provenance: significant Moravian collection Consulted by John Mucha, grandson and copyright holder of Alfons Mucha, who remarked: "This is a beautifully done study for the painting of Libuse, which is in our collection. The girl is one of her sisters, either Teta or Kazi." Certificate of authenticity from John Mucha enclosed. Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina, Dr Jiri Machalicky and Vladimir Lekes. Mucha's entire artistic oeuvre is pervaded by an interest in the depiction of the female figure. He succeeded in perfectly capturing the contemporary female type and developed his own aesthetic ideals of beauty. He introduced his viewers to the glamorous world of Parisian and Prague models, night cabarets, social salons, and theatrical performances, as well as a series of intimate portraits.