Lysistrata
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Print Club, New York, 1934
Author: Aristophanes
Date: 1934
Dimensions:
Page: H: 15 in. (381 mm); W: 11 1/8 in. (283 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 6 etchings, incl. 1 with aquatint, on Arches cream wove paper
Text (cover): letterpess
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.882A-F
Label Text:This album of six etchings was issued separately from the book edition of 1500, which was the only American publication with original Picasso prints. Like the etching for OVID, these prints are in Picasso's classical linear style. The comedy LYSISTRATA was originally written in 411 B. C., after 20 years of war between Athens and Sparta. The story tells how Lysistrata, weary of battles in which husbands and sons were slain, incited the Athenian women to leave their conjugal beds until their husbands stopped fighting battles and made peace.
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