“Cin Cin!”
A toast to our latest Montici mosaic find, and what a delight it is.
I was surfing the Net today and came across on First Dibs a previously sold Montici not currently found in our Society database.
Richard Blow was an urbane raconteur and wine connoisseur, as befits a millionaire’s son raised in Great Gatsby wealth. Here he combines his love of wine with an ubiquitous Montici icon – the butterfly. It’s vintage Richard. The poor Lepidoptera is rapidly sinking into a Bacchanalian sea of vino rosso, an imaginative drowning that could only have sprung from the mind of an artist who famously appreciated both. It is personally signed by Richard, and was executed in 1960, at the height of Italy’s celebrated, sybaritic, post WWII “La Dolce Vita” era. The artwork is now officially logged into our Society database as MSID ‘The Drunken Butterfly.”
Grazie, Richard, for this cheerful, artistic surprise.
Michael Schmicker
PS: Apologies for the distortion in the image. I couldn’t download it cleanly. Click below to see it clearly.