The label for Mouton 1989 was painted by Georg Baselitz, who
commands some of the highest prices at auction for contemporary German art
today. He belonged to a Neo-Expressionist group of German artists, the Neue
Wilden, who focused on deformation, the power of the subject and the vibrancy
of the colours. Baselitz painted his first picture with an upside-down image in
1969 with his Der Wald auf dem Kopf, and he has become famous for these
inverted images. His art label for the 1989 vintage of
Chateau Mouton-Rothschild contains two upside down sheep in
contrasting colours, something that one might have expected from this artist.
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