On Christmas Eve in 1894, Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha was checking lithographic ... a local merchant to gift him a small supply of high-quality paper. Bernhardt, for her part ...

"(Alphonse) Mucha is well known as a flag-bearer of Art Nouveau. But actually he became so unintentionally and he didn't like it ," Tomoko Sato, curator at Mucha Foundation, said.