Absolut Robert Cenedella Cafe Carillon Hand Signed Numbered Lithograph Color Print 217/300. Artist signed hand numbered 217 of 300 limited edition print. Absolut Cenedella Café Carillon 1987 brings together the major participants in this successful program, from Michel Roux and Andy Warhol to Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. A few noticeable creases on the print, minor tears, and some wear on the edges. Light staining on the bottom right hand corner. This item is in good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details. Black sleeve is not included in the sale, used for photography purposes only.
Print: 28" length, 40" width. Weight: 0.9 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.
Share this lot:
