Color print depicting a vibrant surrealist orchestral performance scene, signed lower right by Robert Cenedella. The composition features a dynamic concert hall setting with musicians, instruments, and abstract color bursts rendered in Cenedella’s expressive, satirical style. The print is matted and housed in a gold-tone frame. The lower margin contains numerous signatures, likely from other artists associated with Absolut. This item is in good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 29" x 40 3/4". Weight: 15.5 lbs
Robert Cenedella was born in Milford, Mass., in 1940. He received his formal education from the High School of Music and Art in New York and The Art Students League of New York where he studied under the late German satirical painter George Grosz. In 1988, he inherited the George Grosz chair at The League when he was invited to teach his Life Drawing Class and a Painting Workshop.
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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