Absinthe Ad Poster Homage A Toulouse Lautrec By John Pacovsky Framed Liquor Advertisement. Frame shows light wear with scratches on the corner and edges. This item is in good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear, and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 21 3/4" length, 28 3/4" width, 1" depth. Weight: 7.0 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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