104 THOUSAND 500 DOLLARS FOR ANDY WARHOL’S TRIBUTE TO WINE: SIX SCREEN PRINTS, ENTITLED “GRAPES D.D.” DEPICTING DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF GRAPES. BUT THE INVENTOR OF POP ART HAD ALREADY MET BACCHUS - HE DESIGNED THE 1975 MOUTON-ROTHSCHILD LABEL

In times of crisis there is much talk of falling prices of grapes. There is one, however, that is expensive, very, very expensive. One hundred four thousand five hundred dollars is the price the auction house Christie’s in New York sold the Andy Warhol tribute to wine. The six screen prints, titled Grapes D.D., signed by the artist in 1979, represent six different grape varieties.

The set of screen prints is the classic style of the inventor of Pop Art, who made everyday objects famous: such as cans of Campbell’s Soup and Coca-Cola bottles, or the faces of people like Marilyn Monroe and Mao, reproducing the same image in series, diversified by different colors. But these screen prints are not Warhol’s only artistic expression of Bacchus protagonist: in 1975, the New York artist created the Mouton-Rothschild label (who, since 1924 have chosen famous artists to design their labels; for example, Salvador Dali, Joan Mirò and Pablo Picasso), using color schemes similar to those of Grapes D.D.