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(#169)
DOMAINE CHANDON
Edition of 1896 of which 150
copies are signed 1-150, 26 copies are signed
A-Z as artist's proofs; 15 are signed as dedication
copies, and three sets are signed as progressives.
August 12, 1996
14-7/8" x 24" 10
colors
Client: Domaine Chandon, 1 California
Drive, Yountville CA 94599 Telephone (707) 944-2280
FAX 1-707-944-1123
Model: Sophie Maureen Aissen
Goines
1-150: Galerie Louvre A-Z: Artist's
own use Progressives: One set to Richard Miami,
one set to Domaine Chandon, one set to Galerie
Louvre. (Graphis Poster Annual 1998)
Dedication copies: Zach Berkowitz,
Carol Colesworthy, Mario Daniele, Dawnine Dyer,
Ed Farver, Sophie Maureen Aissen Goines, Susanna
Groom, Ed Hamler, Joy Henderson, Philippe Jeanty,
Heather McCoy, Richard Miami, William Newlands,
Lisa Patton, Kitti Stewart.
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| My little grape is off in La Belle
France, plumping herself with food and wine and
ecstatic light. Her skin shiny tight, ready to
burst. Harvest is on her mind, the fruit yearning
for the press. Aching for transformation from juice
so sweet it hurts your teeth, breathlessly anticipating
the joyful yeasty pirouette. Bubbles rushing through
heady overpowering fermentation perfume. Yesterday
she was on the vine, soaking up days. Tomorrow
she will be new wine, sleepy with promise. What
will she become? Not a deep, brooding red, thick
and musky. Not a delicate white. Maybe a sun-stored
golden Sauterne-she could go that way. Perhaps
a pixie-bright Gewürztraminer, supple and
spicy. An impish champagne, thrilling with effervescence?
Right now most signs point to a Blanc de Noirs,
gamin-sparkling with rose blush, but packing quite
a kick. She'll improve with time, that's for sure. |