
Fig. 1. Édouard Manet - Un bar aux Folies Bergère, 1881-2

Fig. 2. John Brack - The Bar, 1954

Fig. 3. Yasumasa Morimura - Daughter of Art History: Theatre B, 1998
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.'
Dylan Thomas
* 'I have heard the mermaids singing each to each / I do not think that they will sing to me.' The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917) by T.S. Eliot
Addendum:

Leonard Cohen - Closing Time (click image to access clip on YouTube)