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The association asked Picasso to illustrate Aristophanes’ famous comedy, Lysistrata, a new translation of which had just been completed by Gilbert Seldes.

This etching (and its five companions) came about due to the initiative of an association of American bibliophiles, the Limited Editions Club, in New York. Plate II of VI illustrating the Gilbert Seldes version of the Aristophanes play Lysistrata, published by the Limited Editions Club, New York, 1934 printed by Roger Lacouriere, Paris.Ĭatalog: Bloch 268 Cramer 24 II Geiser 388B.b Original etching printed in black ink on BFK Rives wove paper.Ī superb impression of Geiser’s only state, printed after the steelfacing of the plate, from the book edition of 1500 (apart from the pencil signed and numbered edition of 150).

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