Czech Republic - 2025 - Expo 2025 Osaka: A. Mucha SS (MNH)
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Mucha’s first series of decorative panels, The Seasons, released in Paris in 1896. These were posters without text, intended purely for artistic use or for decorating interior walls. The set of four panels depicts the seasons as ethereal nymphs, with appearances and moods capturing the essence of each season.
a) Summer, with red poppies on her head evoking the heady perfume of summer’s heat, sits by a riverbank, dipping her feet in the cooling water.
b) Spring is portrayed as a gentle fair-haired girl playing a lyre fashioned from a branch and her own hair.
c) Autumn, with hair adorned with a wreath of chrysanthemums, celebrates the harvest against the rich colours of autumn trees.
d) Winter is a more mature woman wrapped in a cloak, warming a small bird stiff from the cold.
Together, they represent the natural harmony of the seasons.
A special edition commemorates Czechia‘s participation at EXPO 2025, held on the artificial island of Yumeshima in Osaka, Japan, from April 13 to October 13, 2025.