Absinthe Refined Ad Poster By John Pacovsky Homage A Bruegel Advertisement Box of Posters. A few creases on the posters and some wear on the edges. One hundred 100 plus identical design posters included in this box. These items are in good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear, and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Poster: 26" length, 19" width. Box: 27" length x 19 1/2" width x 1 3/4" depth. Weight: 21.0 lbs
This art piece was a part of Michel Roux’s collection. He was 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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