Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1934
Medium
etching
Dimensions
Platemark: 21.7 x 14.7 cm (8 9/16 x 5 13/16 in.); Sheet: 38.3 x 28 cm (15 1/16 x 11 in.)
Style
Surrealist-influenced modernism
Decade
1930s
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies No. 5–Athenian Warrior: The Peace as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1934, in etching. In 1934, Pablo Picasso illustrated a new edition of <em>Lysistrata</em>,a comedy by ancient Greek writer Aristophanes. In the play, the women of Athens, led by Lysistrata, compel the men around them to end an ongoing war with the city-state of Sparta by maintaining celibacy until the fighting concluded. This etching—from a portfolio published alongside the book—corresponds to the main scene of the story: depicting the result of their efforts: the peace agreement and the following celebration. To suggest and complement the story’s setting, Picasso used a classical linear style inspired by Greek art.
No. 5–Athenian Warrior: The Peace is grouped here under Surrealist Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The holding collection is documented by the cited institutional source.
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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