Original modern figurative painting depicting two stylized nude female figures seated in an interior scene with a small table holding fruit, glassware, and objects. Rendered in muted earth tones with geometric and cubist-influenced forms. The composition features elongated figures, angular facial features, and a patterned background. Oil on stretched canvas. The work is unsigned and undated. Canvas is mounted on a wooden stretcher with cross bracing. No artist attribution provided. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition, with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Measurements: 30" x 40" x 1 1/2". Weight: 5.1 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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