Above: Monsieur Boileau au café. Toulouse Lautrec.
'Van Gogh is rumored to have chopped his ear off during an absinthe binge. Some research has suggested that it’s even the reason that he used so much yellow in his works – thujone, a component of absinthe back in the day (it’s not in the legal stuff in the U.S. these days), has been shown to fuel creativity and cause yellow-tinged vision'
'Toulouse Lautrec loved the Fairy a little too much. A notorious alcoholic, Lautrec supposedly had a special cane made that could hold the green liquid inside so he would always have some with him. He used absinthe images in many of his works, including the one pictured: Monsieur Boileau au café'
'Oscar Wilde believed that absinthe helped his creative process, and said, “After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world'
Fancy a glass? Fancy a dance?........................
