Abstract expressionist painting featuring heavy impasto and textured brushwork. Composed in muted tones of black, gray, blue, rust, and off-white with dynamic, layered movement throughout. Executed on canvas and housed in a black frame with cream-colored liner. Signed in red on the bottom right, artist unknown. Canvas mounted within the frame; wired and ready to hang. The frame shows light wear consistent with age. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full condition details.
Artwork. 24 1/2" x 30 1/4" x 3/4". Weight: 5.2 lbs.
This item is originally from the collection of liquor icon Michel Roux. One of Mr. Roux’s signature spirits at Crillon was absinthe, the anise-flavored spirit known for its popularity among 19th-century artists like van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. It was banned by the United States in 1912 amid concerns that wormwood, one if its ingredients, which contained thujone, caused hallucinations. In 2000 Mr. Roux introduced a legal absinthe, Absente, which used a sister botanical, Southern wormwood, with only trace amounts of thujone.
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