Arthur BOYD | Chorus: 'Invoke with a shout Dionysos out of whose eyes breaks fire on the maenads that follow'.

Arthur BOYD
 Australia 1920 – Melbourne 1999 AD
England, Australia, Italy from 1959

GANYMED ORIGINAL EDITIONS LTD publisher  

THOMAS ROSS & SONS print workshop England 1833

Chorus: 'Invoke with a shout Dionysos out of whose eyes breaks fire on the maenads that follow'. Arthur Boyd, 'Lysistrata: A suite of twenty etchings, ten additional etchings entitled 'Variants and Addenda' '. London: Ganymed Original Editions, 1970. 1970 ink; paper , etching and aquatint, printed in black ink with plate-tone, from one plate
35.2 (h) x 40.3 (w) cm
undesignated impression , published state , no manufacturer's mark.
Signed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Arthur Boyd'. Not dated. Not titled. Inscribed with edition details lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'IV/XII'. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra NGA 1971.124.20 Purchased 1971 Reproduced with the permission of Bundanon Trust
  • Purchased by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board (C.A.A.B.], from Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, August 1971.
  • Purchased by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board (C.A.A.B.], from Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, August 1971.
  • Purchased by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board (C.A.A.B.], from Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, August 1971.