Vintage watercolor painting depicting a bouquet of yellow and white flowers against a soft blue-grey background. Signed “MARKA” at lower right. Presented in a double-matted display with a yellow accent mat and a yellow 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. 17 1/2" x 21 3/4" x 3/4". Weight: 3.6 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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