Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a famous French artist and illustrator, celebrated for his images of cafes and posters ...

As an imbibing alternative, absinthe became fashionable with artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Cafe culture even created special glassware, slotted spoons and ornate ...

Clowning around: Toulouse-Lautrec’s ‘The Clown Cha-U-Kao’ (1895), showing a faux-Chinese nightclub performer arm-in-arm with her girlfriend (The Courtauld) Is there much further mileage in ...

This put pastis at an advantage, according to Collins: absinthe, she said, was seen as "the drink of degenerate artists" (including Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and ...

Toulouse-Lautrec loved it so much that, as well as depicting it in several of his paintings, he invented a cocktail called The Earthquake, which included equal parts absinthe and Cognac ...

(9.8 x 7.2 in.) Jules Chéret; Gaston Bernheim (director of the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); Galerie Salis, Salzburg; acquired there in 1992, since then private property, Austria Literature Henri de ...

from In a Café (The Absinthe Drinker) by Edgar Degas to Pablo Picasso's The Glass of Absinthe. It was said to have hallucinogenic properties that could spur creative genius but may also plunge an ...

Nicknamed the Green Fairy for its most common hue, absinthe inspired Oscar Wilde, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ... inspired accouterment: The drinker opens up absinthe’s flavors ...

Biographer Mack’s new subject is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa,* who died of drink and exhaustion in 1901, aged 36, the greatest French master of line between Daumier and Picasso. Most ...

La Femme Tatouée' (1894) is estimated at $3.3 million to $4.6 million. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, La femme tatouée (1894). Courtesy of Christie's. According to Michelle McMullan, the head of ...

Sadly, Toulouse-Lautrec barely made it into the subsequent Edwardian era, dying in 1901 of a surfeit of absinthe and syphilis. By that time, however, his artistic reputation had established itself.

(Thank you!) Toulouse-Lautrec’s notorious Earthquake Cocktail is not included in the book, but it is easy enough to mix: half absinthe and half cognac in a goblet. He was a notorious alcoholic.