Wine Pour Poster

Wine Pour splits the sheet between coral red and black and lets the two colours do the drawing. A woman is seen in profile against the red, her black bob and black dress merging into the dark half of the composition so that only her face, neck and hands are drawn, outlined in a fine line on cream. Three strands of pearls fall across her chest. She holds a glass while rose is poured into it from a green bottle that enters from the right, the wine caught mid-pour as a continuous pink ribbon. VINO is set in heavy black capitals at the bottom. The shapes are flat, the edges are clean and nothing is shaded.

Coral red and black are decisive, so the frame should be quiet: black makes it graphic and oak warms the red. It belongs where wine is poured, so a kitchen, a dining room or a bar wall, and it works well at the end of a hallway where the red carries down the length of it. Keep what hangs near it plain, and pair it with dark wood, glass and a little brass.