Absinthe Refined Sylvain Copon Signed Original Oil on Canvas Green Fairy
Original Absinthe Refined surreally styled advertising artwork by artist Sylvain Copon. Signed. Original artwork on canvas painting, signed Copon lower right. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Art: 24" x 30". Weight: 2.5 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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Original Absinthe Refined surreally styled advertising artwork by artist Sylvain Copon. Signed. Original artwork on canvas painting, signed Copon lower right. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface scratches. Please reference all photos for full details.
Art: 24" x 30". Weight: 2.5 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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