'Bottle' belongs to a group of paintings inspired by 'Le Spleen de Paris' by Charles Baudelaire. Together with the late writer Hafid Bouazza, Marlene Dumas has worked on a new Dutch translation of this publication and has created twenty illustrations. The painting refers indirectly to Baudelaire's poem 'Enivrez-vous' (or 'Get Drunk' in English), a poem inspiring the reader to get drunk “on wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish”, in short, to live life to the fullest. The painting was part of her solo show at Musée d’Orsay. Later this year, it will be included in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, curated by Douglas Fogle.