Recipe: Gargoyle Cocktail No. 2

How a 1920s London Bar Saved Matisse's "The Red Studio."

Cocktails and art being served at The Gargoyle Club in London.

You don’t expect to see an old liquor ad in the middle of a Matisse show. But there it was in the second room of the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition dedicated to the creation and legacy of Matisse’s monumental 1911 work, The Red Studio—an ad for Booth’s Gin.

“Real cocktails begin with Booth’…