Pixelated Absolut Gartel Signed and Numbered Digital Art Print Laurence Gartel 46 of 200

Laurence Gartel, “Absolut Gartel,” from his landmark Absolut Vodka digital art commission created circa 1991. Large digital art print depicting the pixelated Absolut bottle against an abstract background. Pencil signed lower right, dated 1992 and numbered 46/200 lower left.

Unframed. Minor foxing, spotting, and discoloration throughout, as shown. Reverse backside is blank. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with wear, edge creases, small tears, and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full condition details.

Measurements: Approx 26" W x 38 1/4" L. Image: 22" x 26 1/4". Weight: 0.7 lbs.

Laurence Gartel (American, b. 1956) is a pioneering digital artist widely recognized as one of the early innovators of the digital art movement. Beginning his electronic work in the 1970s alongside video-art pioneer Nam June Paik, Gartel helped establish computers as a serious artistic medium decades before digital art became mainstream. His work has been exhibited at major institutions including MoMA and is represented in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

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.