1918–1928: official poster celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia
Colour lithograph, 1928
In this poster Mucha depicted the nation as a young woman in a ceremonial robe with a headdress decorated with the emblems of the ethnic regions constituting Czechoslovakia: Bohemia (the lion), Moravia (the chequered eagle), Slovakia (the cross), Silesia (the eagle with the clover stalk) and Ruthenia (the bear). Here she is being crowned with a garland of flowers by a spiritual being behind her representing the Allies in the World War I who supported the nation’s independence.
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