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Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · The Masters
JOB Cigarette Papers — Alphonse Mucha, 1896
Alphonse Mucha · French advertising poster, JOB cigarette papers, 1896
What it is
Mucha’s advertisement for JOB cigarette rolling papers — a woman’s hair dissolving into smoke against a halo of pattern.
Why it matters
One of Mucha’s most reproduced commercial works, and the piece that cemented "Le Style Mucha" as a language advertisers, not just theaters, would pay for.
What to notice
The smoke and the hair are drawn as the same continuous line — advertisement as ornament.
A vice, made to look like a vision.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Alphonse Mucha
- Printer / house
- lithograph
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- French advertising poster, JOB cigarette papers, 1896
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Live trademark
JOB — sold here as history, never adopted into this house’s own branding.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-17. JOB is a live trademark (rolling papers) — copyright clearance covers reproduction of the artwork only. Sell as design history; do not imply endorsement or adopt the JOB wordmark into house branding.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 27x41" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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