Woman Pencil White Crayon Portrait Study Mucha Pos ポスター

This beautiful poster features a crayon sketch based on Alphonse Mucha's 1897 pencil sketch series, which were originally created as a calendar designs. However, the calendar part was removed, and the sketch became a popular decorative panel sold under the title "Evocation" in 1898. The sketch portrays a woman in a light cloth dress, rendered in delicate sketched lines, showcasing Mucha's unique style. The drawing captures Mucha's dreamy vision of a spiritual being, a motif he had been pursuing since the early 1890s. Interestingly, Mucha was close to the Spiritualists' circle in Paris during that time, often participating in psychic experiments in his studio using a medium. The woman's fixed gaze and rigid posture show the influence of such experiments.