The Absinthe Drinkers

But it seems John Hurt isn’t all about the big bucks he’s been in Liverpool this week filming an upcoming independent film titled the absinthe drinkers. The star, who famously portrayed Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York, has been spotted The spirit was a muse extraordinaire from 1859, when Édouard Manet’s The Absinthe Drinker shocked the annual Salon de Paris, to 1914, when Pablo Picasso created his painted bronze sculpture, The Glass of Absinthe. During the Belle Époque, the Green Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker) owned by British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber through his art foundation will finally be put on the auction block on June 23. CBS News reported that Jussi Pylkkanen, head of Christie's Europe Pontarlier (France) (AFP) - It's the drink that, more than any lover, drove a generation of artists, from Van Gogh to Oscar Wilde and Verlaine, to distraction. Absinthe was their muse, their creative rocket fuel, but the fabled "fee verte" (green fairy With the same ingredients rumored to have inspired the works of Picasso, Hemingway and van Gogh, Matt Hottenroth of Dogwood Distilling into his new Haint absinthe. The glowing green concoction has long been believed to send its drinkers into That was the theory, at least, when France banned the green-tinted liquor during World War 1, claiming it drove drinkers insane. A century later, absinthe’s reputation has been rehabilitated, and drinkers are once again coming under its seductive spell. .

Manet got a similar reaction to his The Absinthe Drinker. His first major work, he used an alcoholic rag-picker as his model for a piece that didn’t exactly cause the major social splash he’d been hoping for. When he submitted the piece to the French Christie's in London will sell a coveted Blue Period Picasso portrait, owned by the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's Art Foundation, with a conservative estimate of between ₤30 million ($49.8 million) and ₤40 million, the highest for a work of art London - "The Absinthe Drinker", a famous painting from Pablo Picasso's Blue Period, a portrait of his friend the artist Angel Fernandez de Soto, was sold today at auction at Christie's in London for US$ 51.2-million. The painting, also known as "Portrait "I will not be seen as a drug addict anymore," says Clement Arnoux, an absinthe drinker and enthusiast. "It changes everything from the point of view of my friends and family," he said. The green, anise-flavoured spirit is associated with many of the .

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