PICASSO, Pablo. Eaux-Fortes Originales pour des Textes de Buffon . Paris: Martin Fabiani, 1942.
PICASSO, Pablo. Eaux-Fortes Originales pour des Textes de Buffon . Paris: Martin Fabiani, 1942. 2 o (373 x 282 mm). 31 etched plates with sugar aquatint and drypoint by Picasso. Loose as issued in original printed wrappers; cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 114 of 135 copies on papier vélin de Vidalon au filigrane d'Ambroise Vollard. from an total edition of 226. "The Buffon is one of the greatest bestiaries of the 20th century. Picasso began these etchings in 1936 (he had promised them to Vollard, who died before their completion; Fabiani was one of Vollard's associates). It appears that the artist executed them rapidly, and with the utmost freedom. The master printer Lacourire had introduced Picasso... to the lift-ground or sugar aquatint process, which allowed a variety of tones and textures within a limited range. The spontaneity of the plates is attested by the freehand margins, the rapidly drawn line, and the use of fingerprints for textural variety" (Garvey. The Artist and the Book p.158). Picasso selected thirty-one descriptions of animals from the Histoire Naturelle of George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (originally published in 44 volumes between 1745-1804) as a point of departure for his illustrations, of which only twenty-one are accompanied by Buffon's abbreviated texts, the remainder only by titles. In the proof state, Picasso etched in large letters the name of each animal beneath the image (except that of the wolf). These names are removed in the final state. The work is all the more remarkable when one remembers that it was produced during the German occupation of Paris, a time of great practical difficulties and severely restricted artistic freedom. Cramer 37; Hogben & Watson, From Manet to Hockney (London: 1985) 110; E. Garvey, The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960 (NY: 1982) 231; W.J. Strachan, The Artist and the Book in France (London: 1969) p.340.
PICASSO, Pablo. Eaux-Fortes Originales pour des Textes de Buffon . Paris: Martin Fabiani, 1942.
PICASSO, Pablo. Eaux-Fortes Originales pour des Textes de Buffon . Paris: Martin Fabiani, 1942. 2 o (373 x 282 mm). 31 etched plates with sugar aquatint and drypoint by Picasso. Loose as issued in original printed wrappers; cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 114 of 135 copies on papier vélin de Vidalon au filigrane d'Ambroise Vollard. from an total edition of 226. "The Buffon is one of the greatest bestiaries of the 20th century. Picasso began these etchings in 1936 (he had promised them to Vollard, who died before their completion; Fabiani was one of Vollard's associates). It appears that the artist executed them rapidly, and with the utmost freedom. The master printer Lacourire had introduced Picasso... to the lift-ground or sugar aquatint process, which allowed a variety of tones and textures within a limited range. The spontaneity of the plates is attested by the freehand margins, the rapidly drawn line, and the use of fingerprints for textural variety" (Garvey. The Artist and the Book p.158). Picasso selected thirty-one descriptions of animals from the Histoire Naturelle of George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (originally published in 44 volumes between 1745-1804) as a point of departure for his illustrations, of which only twenty-one are accompanied by Buffon's abbreviated texts, the remainder only by titles. In the proof state, Picasso etched in large letters the name of each animal beneath the image (except that of the wolf). These names are removed in the final state. The work is all the more remarkable when one remembers that it was produced during the German occupation of Paris, a time of great practical difficulties and severely restricted artistic freedom. Cramer 37; Hogben & Watson, From Manet to Hockney (London: 1985) 110; E. Garvey, The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960 (NY: 1982) 231; W.J. Strachan, The Artist and the Book in France (London: 1969) p.340.
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