Rougemont illustrates the label of Château Mouton Rothschild
Every year since 1945, a great artist has illustrated the label of Château Mouton Rothschild. Thus, the most famous names in contemporary art are brought together in a collection to which a new work is added each year.
The commission to illustrate the 2011 vintage was given by Baroness Philippine de Rothschild to the French painter and sculptor Guy de Rougemont, born in 1935 and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institut de France. Fond of bright, warm colours, which he initially used in regular geometrical forms, he subsequently turned to the “serpentine line”, whose undulations emphasise or temper contrasts of light and shade.
His drawing for Mouton Rothschild 2011 belongs to this second manner: from gold to dark red, from the clarity of vines in sunshine to the darkness of the cellars, Rougemont takes us in colour through all the stages of the birth of a great wine.
