Original mixed-media artwork by Jane in Vain Winkelman, numbered 5/91, titled “Even the Scapegoat Mocks My Pain.” The piece features the artist’s characteristic, surreal, expressive, and symbolic figural style with bold colors and narrative text. Signed and numbered in the lower right. Signed and titled again on the reverse. Presented under glass in a simple metal frame with matting. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 36 1/4" x 28 1/4" x 1". Weight: 8.6 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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