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Original 2007 acrylic painting on canvas by Haitian artist Nicolas Dreux. The work depicts an interior scene with a table, flowers, fish, and four white cats, with a landscape visible through an open window. Signed “Nicolas Dreux 2007” at lower left. Presented in a wooden frame.
The canvas back is factory-primed in bright yellow. Light handling wear to the frame is consistent with age. The painting surface is stable. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Frame: 16 1/2" x 21" x 1 1/4". Weight: 1.8 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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