Two naked young women, their eyes rimmed with drugs, are lying on a couch.
Ba 430dry point
(1921)
Etheromaniacs
Print size: 238 mm × 290 mm
Related people
Auguste Brouet (etcher/engraver)Frédéric Grégoire (editor)
Related object
Ethereomaniacs (drawing)32. Les Ethéromanes (Exposition de 1923)
15. The Etheromaniacs (Exposition de 1923 - estampes en vente)
54. THE ETHEROMANIACS (Exposition de 1927)
Theme
nude
Printed at
100
impressions,
10
artist proofs.
Catalogues: B. 227, IFF 15.10.
Exhibitions: EG 32, EG C 15.
Catalogues: B. 227, IFF 15.10.
Exhibitions: EG 32, EG C 15.


André Warnod, in Le Vieux Montmartre (1911), dwelt on the use of narcotics in the milieu of artists, and in particular that of ether, which "cold and brutal makes you jump like a steel blade and penetrates you almost painfully to the bottom of your being..."