Art Nouveau Alphonse Mucha Buscuit Box Lefevre Utile

Original antique buscuit tin box for Lefevre Utile cookies decorated with lithograph paper covers designed by Alphonse Mucha. Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, and designs, which became among the best-known images of the period. In the second part of his career, at the age of 43, he returned to his homeland of Bohemia-Moravia region in Austria and devoted himself to painting a series of twenty monumental canvases known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the Slavic peoples of the world, which he painted between 1912 and 1926. In 1928, on the 10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series to the Czech nation. He considered it his most important work. It is now on display in Prague. Lefevre Utile, better known worldwide by the initials LU, is a manufacturer brand of French biscuits, emblematic of the city of Nantes. The brand is now part of US confectionery company Mondelez International since 2012, after splitting of its previous owner Kraft Foods, which acquired it as part of its acquisition from Groupe Danone in 2007. The Petit-Beurre biscuillt remains the flagship product alongside the Boudoir, Champagne, Petit four, Prince (FR), Pim's, Paille d'Or, etc. Good condition, small paper losses and light staining on bottom. Country of issue: France, designer: Alphonse Mucha, size (cm): 20.5x10x8, year of printing: 1890s