Prague city council to discuss Japanese offer for Alphonse Mucha epic

Prague city council should discuss on Tuesday a Japanese offer to restore Czech painter Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic series of paintings in return for their exhibition in Tokyo. The Japanese want to exhibit the massive series of 20 paintings for three months in 2012. The paintings were bestowed to Prague by the artist but are now exhibited at a castle in Moravský Krumlov. Mucha has been credited as the inspiration for many current Japanese manga or comic strip artists.