Framed color portrait photograph of Avo Uvezian, Armenian-American jazz musician, composer, and noted cigar entrepreneur associated with AVO cigars. Photograph depicts Uvezian wearing a white suit and straw hat while holding a cigar. Hand-inscribed and signed at lower right, appearing to read “To Michel, Avo Uvezian.” Presented under glass in a silver-tone metal frame.
This item is in good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 14" x 11 1/4" x 3/4". Weight: 2.0 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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