Beautiful mixed media artwork featuring twelve individually painted mountain flowers, each rendered on a real dried natural leaf. Signed Johanne O. on the front and titled in French along the bottom. The piece features delicate hand-painted floral details, arranged in three rows, each leaf uniquely shaped and decorated. Presented under glass in a solid wood frame with double matting.
This piece includes an informational label on the back describing the artist’s process of painting mountain flowers on leaves from various trees, such as chestnut, oak, beech, and birch. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 18 1/2" x 22 1/4" x 3/4". Weight: 4.5 lbs.
Johanne Olivain (20th–21st Century) was an artist known for creating unique works, including watercolors painted on natural materials like sycamore and poplar leaves. Olivain’s style is characterized by detailed nature paintings, specifically birds, on delicate, natural canvases. This choice of material makes her work distinct in contemporary art
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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