Framed original painting by artist Will Lurcott, dated 2005. The artwork depicts a stone slab in a forest clearing with dramatic lighting and deep, earthly tones. Presented in a wide silver-tone frame with white matting. Artist label attached to the reverse. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 32 1/2" x 25 1/2" x 1 1/2". Weight: 11.8 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 of 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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