Prométheus
[Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1924].
1 original copper plate (200 x 280 mm) and 1 engraved plate (same format).
Rare original copper plate, one of those used to illustrate the edition published by Blaizot in 1924.
Accompanied by the print on Japanese paper and the publicity specimen issued for the publication of the book.
Accompanied by the print on Japanese paper and the publicity specimen issued for the publication of the book.
In 1908, František Kupka, a Bohemian artist who had left his native Austro-Hungarian Empire, was commissioned to illustrate Aeschylus’s Prometheus and Aristophanes’s Lysistrata. The illustrations were nearly complete by 1911, but the project was abandoned for lack of funding. It was only a little more than ten years later, following a new commission for Leconte de Lisle’s Les Érinnyes, that Kupka returned to the work and completed his two original projects. In doing so, he deepened his knowledge of ancient Greek art, adopting a highly personal, archaizing style characteristic of his talent.
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