Mucha Alfons (July 24, 1860 – July 14, 1939), a famous Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator, is the author of the painting hanging in the niche above the entrance door of the restaurant in the luxurious Hotel Thermia Palace in Piešťany. In the painting, a recovering girl- presumably Mucha’s daughter − is seated in a rocking chair. Another girl, wearing a wreath of flowers, has her head and arms on the sitting girl’s knees. The woman standing is bringing a basket with fruit in one hand and a rose in the other – symbolic gifts for the sitting young woman...