Pastel landscape painting signed Jes Walton (artist Jessie Walton) at lower left. The piece depicts a rural farmhouse and barn framed by tall leafless trees under a soft blue sky. Rendered with expressive line work and warm earth tones, the composition captures a peaceful countryside atmosphere. Presented in its original linen mat with green inner border and beige earth-toned distressed wood frame. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 18 1/4" x 15 3/4" x 1". Weight: 3.3 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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