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Edgar Degas, L'Absinthe 1875-6, Oil on canvas
Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870–1910
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Further resources


TATE ETC. articles:
  • The Drink that Fuelled a Nation's Art by Jad Adams, TATE ETC. Issue 5, Autumn 2005

    Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec drank it; Manet and Picasso painted it. Absinthe was known in the mid-nineteenth century as "the queen of poisons", yet artists were drawn to it. As Degas' L'Absinthe forms the focus of Tate Britain's 'Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec', Jad Adams charts the visual history of the drink.

  • A Drink Among Friends by Barry Humphries, TATE ETC. Issue 5, Autumn 2005

    Barry Humphries celebrates an absinthe-inspired drawing by Charles Conder.

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