Picture Mouton 1993 with Frame 35cm x 48cm

This is a print for Chateau Mouton Rothschild in 1993 illustrated by artist Balthus. The drawing he made for Mouton Rothschild 1993 returns to a recurrent motive in this work : the dreamy adolescent girl, wilful, graceful and fragile… All the hypnotic power of a style that is both limpid and full of mystery, leading us away to distant lands of fantasy and desire. The label is oversized with an image area of aprox. 16.5 cm x 23 cm on paper that is aprox. 34 cm x 47 cm. Frame size 35cm x 48cm.

Baron Philippe de Rothschild came up with the idea of having each year's Château Mouton Rothschild label designed by a famous artist of the day. In 1946, this became a permanent and significant aspect of the Mouton image with labels created by some of the world's great painters and sculptors. The popularity of the label images results in auction prices for older and more collectible years being far out of sync with the other first growths, whose labels do not change year to year.