Slovakia 2015 Alfons Mucha, painting from Hotel Thermia Palace, Piešany
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date : 25th November 2015
- one value
- Designed by : František Horniak
- Printed by : Postal Printing House of Securities, Prague
- Print process : offset lithography
- Perforations : 11.75 x 11.75
- Sheets: 4 stamps (2 x 2)
- stamp format: height 546mm x width 44mm
Alfons Mucha, 1860-1939, painting Salutis Fons Benedicta ave (Hail to You, Blessed Source of Health), 1932
1.20€ ~ detail from painting, reported to be Mucha's daughter, showing girl seated in a rocking chair
- The sheetlet border shows the whole work, shaped to fit in a niche above the doorway of the restaurant at Hotel Thermia Palace in Piešany (a spa in Slovakia). The Mucha family visited Piešany several times between 1929 and 1931, taking medical treatment; this work is Mucha's only one with a Slovak motif (there are Slovak elements in the background on the
painting, which also shows a bearer of fruit)
