BIB_ID
447280
Accession number
MA 23829.51
Creator
Searle, Ronald, 1920-2011, artist.
Display Date
[Napa, California?] : [Clos du Val Wine Co.], 1981
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Anonymous gift in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2021.
Description
1 print (poster) : photomechanical (color halftone) ; sheet: 535 x 355 mm
Notes
Title from item.
Below caption title: Clos du Val Wine Co., Ltd. Napa, California 94558.
Poster signed "© Ronald Searle 1981" at lower left, and "© Clos du Val 1981" at lower right.
Below caption title: Clos du Val Wine Co., Ltd. Napa, California 94558.
Poster signed "© Ronald Searle 1981" at lower left, and "© Clos du Val 1981" at lower right.
Summary
Advertising poster for Clos du Val wine showing a vaulted basement where a crowd of people in cloaks and wearing corks around their necks and and tall, curled hats are assembled; in the foreground, a man wearing a mitre-like hat stands on a barrel and holds out a cork on corkscrew to be sniffed by one of the attendees.
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