The Absinthe Drinkers | Édouard Manet / Vincent van Gogh / Honoré Daumier / Leon Spilliaert / Edgar Degas / Pablo Picasso / Stefan Bedřich

Edvard Munch, The Absinthe Drinkers, 1890 

Viktor Oliva, The Absinthe Drinker (1861-1928)


Vincent Van Gogh –  cut off his ear after a heavy night getting tight
on absinthe with Paul Gaugin.

Vincent van Gogh, Still Life with Absinthe, 1887                    Honoré Daumier, The Drinkers, 1861


“What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"

Oscar Wilde

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto, 1903 (aka The Absinthe Drinker)                                  Edgar Degas, L'Absinthe, 1876

Leon Spilliaert, The Absinthe Drinker, 1907                                      Pablo Picasso, The absinthe drinker, 1901

                                                  Pablo Picasso, The absinthe drinker, 1901                                    Stefan Bedřich, Girl with Absinth, 1924 

^ Édouard Manet began his career with The Absinthe Drinker, 1859

Also:

The Absinthe Drinkers: Paul Verlaine