Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (the artist’s granddaughter; acquired from the above)

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is affixed to the mount on the verso of the upper left, upper right and lower right corners and is floating in its mount. The lower edge is deckled and gently undulating. Some minor creasing to the lower left edge and in the lower right corner. The sheet is lightly time-stained with a few scattered faint specks of foxing. This work is in good overall condition.
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Lots 518, 519 and 609 are studies for an edition of Aristophanes’ bawdy comic play, Lysistrata, published in 1934 by the Limited Editions Club with accompanying illustrations by Picasso. Set in Greece during the Peloponnesian War, the play tells the story of the strong minded Lysistrata, who persuades her fellow women to withhold sex from their husbands as an ingenious means of bringing the war to an end. After a lengthy period of forced abstinence, the men declare an end to the war and general rejoicing ensues as husbands and wives are reunited.