The painting was looted from Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1940 and memorialized in an iconic photograph.
Baron Philippe de Rothschild was not the kind of man who acknowledged limitations. Mouton had been in his family for three generations, but the banking family basically ignored its provincial estate.
In October 2023, several dedicated auctions were held in New York to sell mostly pieces acquired by Baron James Mayer de ...
Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...