Both etchings bear the mark E.A, Epreuve d’Artiste, meaning they are the first production of a series that usually are kept by the artist. Also bearing “Iran 2” on both etchings lower right just before the signature, leads us to believe that the artist found his inspiration probably on his second voyage to Iran.
“The House of Asterion” (original Spanish title: “La casa de Asterión”) is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in 1947 in the literary magazine Los Anales de Buenos Aires and republished in Borges’s short story collection The Aleph in 1949. It is based on the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and is told from the perspective of Asterion, the Minotaur.