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Hugo could not know that, for all their sentiment, Sarah found diamonds a mite conventional. Her taste tended to more sensuous things-she could not resist the sinuous ruby-eyed snake bracelet and ring designed by Art Nouveau Painter Alphonse Mucha and crafted by Jewelsmith Georges Fouquet for her première in Cleopatra, went in hock (she was frequently broke, though her earnings topped $9,000,000) for about $2,000 to have it. To make sure she paid, Fouquet turned up at the theater box office regularly each week to collect his share of the receipts...
Bernhardt to the Rescue. It was on Dec. 26, 1894, that 34-year-old Alphonse Mucha, shaggy-haired and bearded, got his big break in Paris. He had learned to draw before he could walk, and his mother used to tie a necklace of crayons around his neck so that he could exercise his talent whenever he wanted. But for all that talent and for all his study, Mucha was getting nowhere. Then, out of the blue, Actress Sarah Bernhardt came to the rescue. She urgently needed a new poster to advertise her new play. The theater manager telephoned...
...world quickly became familiar with Mucha's larger-than-life posters of Bernhardt in her many roles, from Hamlet to Camille. He also designed advertisements and even menus; and when Czechoslovakia became a nation, Moravia-born Mucha designed its first stamps and bank notes...
...swirls. As for the flower, it contained nature's most delicate lines and its subtlest forms. The beautiful bend of a supple stem, the gentle curves of a petal, the organic flow of line and form into each other-these were the secrets of the flower that Mucha wanted to impose on everything man designed...
...that all objects, whether a ring or a house, should have an organic relationship to each other. But to live with art nouveau came to be like living in a world of peacock tails; it was not so much art as an empty, if dazzling, embellishment. In the end, Mucha himself turned away from it and spent the last years of his life in the Castle Zbirov in Bohemia, working on a series of academic pictures portraying the history of his people...