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Yesterday K & S said...you've had the coolest jobs! You ain't seen nothin' Sweetie Darling :)
Paul Bocuse, Champagne Mumm's spokes person,
thought I should do some artwork for them and made introductions.
They gave me a test assignment: Come up with a big group drawing of tons of celebrities drinking Mumm that they could gift to all their employees.
Can you spot Kate Moss?
And there's one of the Seagrams brothers embracing the big bottle. Please note everyone is holding their glass by the STEM! Never hold a champagne glass by the "bowl". Mustn't warm up those bubbles!!!
That group drawing led to this portrait promotion program.
They thought I should paint the portraits directly onto the Mumm bottles?
I foresaw my living room a sea of Mumm jeroboams! The last minute I came up with the idea to print their label design on my watercolor paper. I ended up with stacks of nice neat printed Champagne labels. YAY
One of the perks of this career was I got to stay at the Mumm mansion in Reims... YUM
The Champagne countryside is magnificent and there's a new fast train from Paris that gets you there in an hour. Don't miss it!
I got to stay a week in Verzy at Veuve Clicquot's country estate.
It was just me and a refrigerator full of jeroboams.
They said, "Help yourself" Right! :)
Someone did pop in to deliver petit dejeuner in the morning and the rest of the time I communed with the grapevines. They still use straw baskets to pick the grapes in Champagne.
There's a lot of partying in the Champagne Biz. These pourers are dressed up as old fashioned "cellar men". They used to turn the resting bottles.
They're fun to sketch...
This is NOT me embracing the big bottle, that's my French boss at Mumm...
This is me partying at the Chelsea Arts Club Belle Epoche Ball held at London's Albert Hall... Well heck, there is a Champagne bottle in the picture! We had to dress up as characters from Degas and Lautrec paintings. I chose a Degas ballet dancer.
I remember Roger Terry, the club concierge, telling me,
"If you add one more satin bow to that outfit, you'll look like a dog's dinner." Don't you just love the Brits!

Pass the Bolly Sweetie Darling! a repost from 2007...