Bearded man in the background holding a spear with both hands; three dogs attacking a boar in the foreground; rectangular line drawn around the scene; remark at the lower left corner of a dog's head. Title: Meleagre Kills the Boar of Calydon Title: Meleagre Tue Le Sanglier de Calydon (for Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide published by Albert Skira in Lausanne in 1931) 145 copies of the book. Retitled 8/15/90: Meleager Kills the Boar For the illustrations in this book, Picasso developed a style of pure contours and discreet eroticism--classical forms without ex- cess, even in scenes of violence. Between Sept. 18 and Oct. 25, he made 27 large etchings, of which 15 were retained, one for each of the 15 books comprising the whole. This is one of the rare times that Picasso illustrated a book with close attention to the text.
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