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Liz Hobday

Art Nouveau pioneer features at Art Gallery of NSW

The AGNSW show will be the most comprehensive display of Mucha's work ever shown in Australia. (HANDOUT/ART GALLERY OF NSW)

An exhibition from Art Nouveau pioneer Alphonse Mucha is set to become the first historical show at the new wing of the Art Gallery of NSW.

The Czech painter and illustrator (1860–1939) shot to fame in the 1890s with a theatre poster for actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was arguably the world's first global celebrity.

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