Storytellers
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Lysistrata suite
Accords Entre les Guerriers, 1934, Etching, 8” x 5.5”
Le Serment des Femmes, 1934,Etching, 8” x 5.5”
Le Banquet, 1934, Etching, 8” x 5.5”
Lysistrata, the third and concluding play of Aristophanes’ War and Peace Series, is named after the ambitious heroine of the play who aims to end the Peloponnesian War by organizing a sex strike among the women of the warring regions. Picasso illustrated this wonderful tale in the height of his classical period of the 1930’s. In six etchings, Picasso depicts this comical and surprisingly modern story written in 411 BC.