Iris Steensma - printmaker: The Purple Women

I shall have champagne for breakfast

Size: 17 x 17 cm Hand-coloured Linocut This lino-cut has recently been published in France, in a book called Champagne dans l'Art (Champagne in Art) by Jean-Marie Pinçon. This is a wonderful collection of paintings and other art, both old and new, including works by Picasso, Manet and Lichtenstein, and they all feature champagne. "I shall have champagne for breakfast" is in the chapter called Reussite (The result), where Jean-Marie Pinçon has written that to drink champagne for breakfast is a deserved reward for a life well spent.