after Balthus (1908 - 2001)
Title: Untitled
Medium: Lithograph in colours, 1993, on Arches watermarked paper, signed in the stone by the artist and by Phillipe de Rothschild. Around the image and text is an indented section made by a machine. The image by Balthus depicts a nude female, lying with her arms raised.
Edition: Size unknown
Note 2 : To commemorate the Allied victory in 1945, Baron Phillipe de Rothschild had the idea of embellishing the Mouton Rothschild label with art. Eaci
1985: Paul Delvaux
1988 : Keith Haring
1989: Georg Baselitz
1993: Balthus
1994 : Karrel Appel
1995: Antoni Tapies
1998: Rufino Tamayo
2004 HRH The Prince of Wales
2006: Lucien Freud
2009: Anish Kapoor
2010: Jeff Koons
Since 1946 only 4 vintages out of the 60 have departed from the tradition.
In 1981 Baroness Philippine de Rothschild collated all the original works which had been made by the world famous artists into individual framed exhibition cases and arranged a travelling exhibition of these: since that time the show has been to many famous museums throughout the world: It began in Canada, In Japan in 1982 and later the United States (21 Cities), England, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, Hong Kong, China and Russia.
Literature: Mouton Rothschild, “Paintings for the Labels”, Published by Sotheby's 2007. The book was published when the exhibition of the original paintings for all the labels was hosted by Sotheby's in New York City.
Size : 46 x 33 cm (paper)
