Original LeRoy Neiman ink sketch executed directly on a vintage Stolichnaya Limonnaya Vodka advertising piece. Features Neiman’s expressive profile portrait alongside the colorful “Freedom of Vodka” advertisement. Personally inscribed to Michel Roux, reading “Michel Roux at the bar at Bambu, ” signed LeRoy Neiman and dated 7-24-69. Presented under glass with matting in a green wood frame; Frame King, Teaneck, New Jersey label to reverse.
Good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear, minor scratches, and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full condition details.
Size: 17" x 14" x 1". Weight: 2.9 lbs.
From the personal collection of Michel Roux, the liquor icon. 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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