Mucha, Art, & Turn-of-the-Century European Woman

"Artists rarely like to be categorized and Mucha would have resented the fact that he is almost exclusively remembered for a phase of his art that lasted barely ten years and that he regarded to be of lesser importance. As a passionate Czech patriot he would have also been unhappy to be regarded as a 'Parisian' artist."

"The obsession with women's hair reached epidemic proportions in the late 19th century. This can be laid down partly to the fact that respectable women would no more dream of letting their hair down in public than they would have of lighting up a cigarette and most men only saw women's hair unleashed in moments of sexual intimacy."

-----Patrick Bade. Mucha. Parkstone, 2014.