Large contemporary mixed-media collage featuring repeated imagery of eyes, lips, hands, and Absente bottle motifs arranged in a kaleidoscopic pattern. Bold surrealist composition with strong pop-art and Dada influences. Signed and titled on the reverse: “Echo Absente, ” “DADA, ” dated AE 2000. Housed in a modern metal frame, ready to hang. Some of the media is loose on the artwork, with minor imperfections. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 43 1/2" x 43 1/2" x 1". Weight: 8.2 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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