The Etheromaniacs (Priv. coll.)

Ba 430
dry point (1921)

Etheromaniacs

Two naked young women, their eyes rimmed with drugs, are lying on a couch.
Print size: 238 mm × 290 mm
Published by F. Grégoire. A preparatory drawing is known.
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..."
Printed at 100 impressions, 10 artist proofs.
Catalogues: B. 227, IFF 15.10.
Exhibitions: EG 32, EG C 15.