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Auguste Brouet - Etheromaniacs - Ba 430
Ba 430

Etheromaniacs

dry point (1921)
Two naked young women, their eyes rimmed with drugs, are lying on a couch.
Only state, 238 mm × 290 mm.
Printed at 100 impressions and 10 artist proofs.
Boutitie 227, IFF 15.9, EG 32, EG C 15.

Priv. coll.
Published by F. Grégoire. A preparatory drawing, along the same lines as the engraving, went on sale at Tajan in November 2012 (no. 128, reproduced). 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...