Framed contemporary mixed-media artwork featuring a soft blue sky with silhouetted treetops and a lightly sketched floating male figure above. The piece blends photography with line drawing to create a surreal, dreamlike composition. Presented in a brushed metallic frame with a clean white backing. Artist not identified. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full condition details.
Artwork. 26 1/4" x 22 1/2". Weight: 5.9 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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