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Lysistrata

Artist Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher Print Club, New York, 1934
Printer etchings: [Atelier Lacourière, Paris]
Author Aristophanes (Greek, 450 - ca. 385 BCE)
Date1934
DimensionsPage: H: 15 in. (381 mm); W: 11 1/8 in. (283 mm).
MediumOriginal prints: 6 etchings, incl. 1 with aquatint, on Arches cream wove paper Text (cover): letterpess
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number
1984.882A-F
Not on View
Label TextThis 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.Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 226

cf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: the Illustrated Books, Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 24

cf. Strachan, W. J., The Artist and the Book in France: the 20th Century livre d'artiste, New York, 1969, p. 340.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 58

Toledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, 1988, no. 9.

Toledo Museum of Art, Drawn from Classicism: Modern Artists’ Books, September 9-December 10, 2017.

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