Oil on linen self-portrait by French artist Christophe Cardot. Depicts a man in a straw hat and white shirt standing at a waterfront railing under a bright sky. Signed C. Cardot lower left and signed again on the stretcher. Inscribed on the reverse Self Portrait, Pour mon ami Michel Roux, and dated October 2008. Presented in a distressed blue wooden frame. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full condition details.
Artwork. 20 1/4" x 24" x 1". Weight: 3.7 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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