Pursuits
Ivan Lendl Brings 150 Mucha Poster Girls Home to Prague
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Iron will and obsessive preparation once propelled Ivan Lendl to the top of world tennis. The once shy and awkward youth from communist Czechoslovakia has applied the same doggedness to collecting art.
The result -- the world’s most complete collection of original posters by the Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha -- is being displayed for the first time in his country of birth. More than 150 prints that the artist created at the height of the Belle Epoque in Paris are on show at the Prague Municipal House.