Absolut Gartel Signed and Numbered Digital Art Pri
Updated September 18, 2026
| Lot number | 218 |
| Estimate | 400.00 - 750.00 USD |
| Auction | Gallery Sale - Sept 22, 2026 |
| Date | September 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM EDT |
| Auction house | Rapid Estate Liquidators and Auction Gallery |
| Location | Orlando, Florida |
Laurence Gartel, “Absolut Gartel,” from his landmark Absolut Vodka digital art commission created circa 1991. Large digital art print depicting the pixelated Absolut bottle against an abstract background. Pencil-signed in the lower right and numbered 135/200 in the lower left.<br> <br> Unframed. Minor foxing, spotting, and discoloration throughout, as shown. Reverse backside is blank. This item is in pre-owned, previously displayed condition with wear, edge creases, small tears, and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full condition details.<br> <br> Measurements: Approx 26" W x 38 1/4" L. Image: 22" x 26 1/4". Weight: 0.7 lbs.<br> <br> Laurence Gartel (American, b. 1956) is a pioneering digital artist widely recognized as one of the early innovators of the digital art movement. Beginning his electronic work in the 1970s alongside video-art pioneer Nam June Paik, Gartel helped establish computers as a serious artistic medium decades before digital art became mainstream. His work has been exhibited at major institutions including MoMA and is represented in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.<br> <br> 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.
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