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Absinthe Refined Ad Print on Canvas By Jim Tweedy - Absinthe Refined Ad Art By Jim Tweedy Liquor Advertisement Canvas Art Print. This item is in like-new, previously displayed condition with minimal wear, still plastic-wrapped. Please reference all photos for full details. Art: 24” x 20”. Weight: 2.0 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 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.