Original oil painting on canvas depicting a close-up portrait of a bearded man, rendered in expressive, textured brushwork. The artist’s signature (hard to read) appears in the lower right corner. Presented in a decorative gold-and-black frame with ornate carved detail. The frame shows light wear consistent with age. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 12 1/4" x 14 1/4" x 1 1/4". Weight: 1.9 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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