Absolut Vodka Signed by Armand Arman Lithograph. Armand Arman Absolut Lithograph Signed by the Artist. Artist signed by Armand Arman on the bottom right of the print lihtograph. A few noticeable creases on the print and some wear on the edges. Black sleeve not included in sale, used for photography purposes. This item is in good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear, and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Lithograph: 45 1/4" length, 32 1/2" width. Weight: 0.9 lbs
This original signed vintage lithograph by Armand Arman is one of the many posters for Absolut Vodka’s advertising campaign done by famous artists. Beginning with Andy Warhol in the 1980s, Absolut Vodka hired well-known artists to magnify the brand’s identity. This print is from Arman’s first original sculpture where he attached 98 Absolut gift boxes and paintbrushes to a piece of wood to form the shape of the bottle.
Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (cachets, allures d’objet) to using them as the artworks themselves. He is best known for his Accumulations and destruction/recomposition of objects. The artist was commissioned by Abslout Vodka and the print was released in 1989.
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 if 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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