Original ink-on-paper drawing by Jon Pask, dated 2004. The artwork features an abstract arrangement of stylized plant forms, rendered in Pask’s signature clean and minimal line style. Signed and dated lower right. Presented in a black metal frame with matting. Overall good condition with light signs of handling to the frame. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 27 1/4" x 33 1/4" x 3/4". Weight: 9.4 lbs.
Jon Pask is a contemporary American artist recognized for his minimalist surrealist figure drawings executed in clean, continuous contour lines. His work often features elongated, stylized human forms with playful or uncanny distortions, exploring gesture, interpersonal tension, and abstracted emotion. Pask works primarily in ink and mixed media, producing compositions that blend surreal humor with modernist simplicity. His pieces appear in private contemporary art collections and regional galleries across the United States.
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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