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Medium: Etching
Artist: Leo Guida
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Autoportrait a la Canne, Avec Comedien, Amour Replet et Femmes (Bl. 1488)
Located in Aventura, FL
Etching on BFK Rives paper, Plate 8 from series 347. Hand signed lower right by Pablo Picasso. Hand numbered 11/50 lower left (there were also 17 artist's proofs). Sheet size: 24 ...
Category
1960s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Etching
$28,000 Sale Price
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Rembrandt à la Palette
Located in Wien, 9
- etching on Montval laid
- with Vollard watermark paper
- Number 34 from the Suite Vollard
- Exhibited: Picasso and the 20th Century, Grand Rapids Museum, MI 2002 No.18
- Unsigned ...
Category
1930s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Composition (Cramer 36; Bloch 360; Horodisch A6), Non Vouloir, Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Zincograph on Vélin Bouffant paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Non Vouloir, 1942. Published by Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris; printed...
Category
1940s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
$1,596 Sale Price
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Cape and Sword: Pursuit II, from 347 Suite
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Cape and Sword: Pusuit II, from 347 Suite
Etching and aquatint from 1968.
The edition of 35/50.
Dimensions of work: 28.3 x 33.2 cm.
Hand signed.
Publ...
Category
1960s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Aquatint
Monogram "J" with Design (Plate VII), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Monogram "J" with Design (Plate VII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Date: 1949
Edition: 289
Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16"
Signed: N...
Category
1940s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Peintre Et Femme Cueillant Des Fleurs (Bloch 1911, Baer 1917)
Located in Aventura, FL
Etching on wove paper. Stamped Pablo Picasso signature lower right. Hand numbered 15/50 lower left (there were also 15 artist's proofs in Rom...
Category
1970s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Etching
$4,760 Sale Price
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Death of Orpheus, Surrealist Etching by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 -1973) - Death of Orpheus from Ovids The Metamorphoses, Year: 1930, Medium: Etching on thin laid paper, Edition: , Image Size: 9 x 6.5 inches, Size: ...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Sculpture et Sculpture 6/10
Located in Wien, 9
Between 1964 and 1965, Picasso created 10 aquatint etchings that were published as a supplement to Pierre Reverdy's literary work "Sable Mouvant". A stri...
Category
1960s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Aquatint
Suite 347
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Pablo Picasso
"Suite 347"
1968
Engraved
Hand signed.
Print run of 50 copies, 22/50.
45 x 58 cm.
Category
Early 1900s Abstract Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Dans l'Atelier - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Complete Title: Dans l'Atelier (Peintre au travail avec une grande toile et un modèle debout).
Etching, aquatint and drypoint on Auvergne wove paper.
Hand Signed. Editions of 32/5...
Category
1960s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Etching
Dans l'Atelier
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Dans l'Atelier
Etching and aquatint from 1965.
The edition of 33/50.
Dimensions of work: 39 x 51.5 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher: Galerie Louise Leiris,...
Category
1960s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$17,452 Sale Price
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Composition (Cramer 36; Bloch 360; Horodisch A6), Non Vouloir, Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Zincograph on Vélin Bouffant paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Non Vouloir, 1942. Published by Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris; printed...
Category
1940s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
$1,596 Sale Price
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Homme et Femme - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated. With an handwritten dedication of the artist. Etching and Aquatint . Bloch n. 1385.
This beautiful etching is dedicated to Michel Lessens, the talented assist...
Category
1960s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Etching
The Deer, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.336)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Deer is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Torero, from "Le Carmen des Carmen"
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and development...
Category
1960s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Aquatint
La Grenouille (The Frog), from Buffon's l'Histoire Naturelle
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Le Grenouille (The Frog), from Buffon's l'Histoire Naturelle
Medium: Original etching with sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint on Vidalon paper with Vollard...
Category
1940s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) - VIEUX PEINTRE ET VIEUX MODELE - etching on paper
Located in Varese, IT
Etching on paper, edited in 1969
Limited edition of 50 copies , numbered 19/50 in lower left
Signed on the plate by the artist
paper size: 38 x 48 cm
Framed size: 52.5 x 63.5 cm
Very...
Category
1960s Abstract Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
L'Etreinte II - Etching by P. Picasso - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Edition 37 of 50 prints, numbered and hand signed.
Image dimensions: 43x58 cm.
Wonderful proof on vélin in full margins, numbered lower left and signed lower right in pencil.
Realize...
Category
1960s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
19 September 1968 - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
19 Septembre 1968 (Peintre et modèle qui se cache le visage) is an artwork realized by Pablo Picasso in 1968.
Black and white etching.
Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin....
Category
1960s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Crow on the Branch - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Crow on the Branch is an artwork realized in 1972 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Etching on cardboard.
Hand Signed and dated on the lower right marg...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Suite 347, 4 avril 1968, L. 16
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Suite 347, 4 avril 1968, L. 16
Etching from 1968.
The edition of 30/50.
Dimensions of sheet: 45.5 x 56 cm
Dimensions in frame: 63 x 72 cm
Hand signed...
Category
1960s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
The 156, Spectacle for a Couple - Original Etching, Signed (Baer #1875)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Series 156, Spectacle for a couple : Captain Frans Banningh Cocq and Women (plate 15), 1978
Original etching with aquatint (Crommelynck workshop)
Signed wi...
Category
1970s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Plate XII, Le Cocu Magnifique
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate XII, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching & aquatyint, 1968
From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper
There is also a signed edition of 30 impressions
The s...
Category
1960s French School Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Aquatint
Pablo Picasso "Le Viol"
Located in Hinsdale, IL
PABLO PICASSO
Le Viol
Etching on Montval laid paper, 1939
From Suite Vollard
Image size: 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches, full margins.
Edition of 260.
Signed in pencil, lower right. Picas...
Category
1930s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
At the Circus with Dancing Odalisque, 1968 (347 Series, B.1696)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"At the Circus with Dancing Odalisque" is an etching from Picasso's 347 Series, image size 6.5 x 8.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left and framed in a Sp...
Category
20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Etching
Crow - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Crow is an artwork realized by the Contemporary Italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017) in 1972.
Black and white etching on paper.
Hand Signed on the lower right margin, dated and ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Sybil - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1970
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 12.5 x 15.5 cm.
Drypoint, etching.
Not signed.
Good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Le peintre au cirque
Located in Wien, 9
- Plate 55 from the Suite 156
- with stamp signature
- dated in the plate 2.3.70
- edition 26/50
- cat. raisonné Bloch 1910
Category
1970s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Winged Bull Watched by Four Children, from: The Suite Vollard - Mythology Greek
Located in London, GB
This original etching is hand signed by the artist "Picasso" at the lower right.
It was printed in by Lacourière in a limited edition of 250 impressions and published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
This is the 13th plate in La Suite Vollard, Picasso's most important series of etchings, and was realised in December 1934.
Note: The Suite Vollard...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Half-Square Head of a Woman with Closed Eyes and Full Lips (Plate XXVII), Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Half-Square Head of a Woman with Closed Eyes and Full Lips (Plate XXVII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Original etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edit...
Category
1940s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Square Head of a Woman Half Smiling (Plate XII), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Square Head of a Woman Half Smiling (Plate XII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Original etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" ...
Category
1940s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Gongora (Soneto Burlesco), Etching by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973) - Gongora (Soneto Burlesco), Year: Circa 1947, Medium: Etching, Size: 15 x 11.25 in. (38.1 x 28.58 cm), Reference: Bloch 476-516, Provenance: Fr...
Category
1940s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Pablo Picasso Head of a Man in Broken Lines (Plate XXXIV), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Head of a Man in Broken Lines (Plate XXXIV)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Original etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" x 18...
Category
1940s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Monogram J (Plate II), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Monogram J (Plate II)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3...
Category
1940s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
La Chevre-Feuille Suite, Suite of Surrealist Etchings by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973) - La Chevre-Feuille Suite, Year: 1943, Medium: Suite of 18 Color Etchings, with cover sheet, Image Size: 10.5 x 8.25 inches, Size: 11 x 9 in. (2...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Oval Head of a Woman with Hair (Plate XIX), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Oval Head of a Woman with Hair (Plate XIX)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 18 3/4" x 16 3/4"
...
Category
1940s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Elisa and the Dragon - Etching by Leo Guida - 1971
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Elisa and the Dragon is an Etching realized by Leo Guida in 1971s.
Good condition, proof artist.
Hand signed, titled and dated by the artist with pencil on the lower margin.
Artis...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
$176 Sale Price
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La Fosse Commune, Etching by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973) - La Fosse Commune, Year: 1947, Medium: Etching on Arches, Image Size: 10 x 8.75 inches, Size: 11 x 17.75 in. (27.94 x 45.09 cm), Reference: Blo...
Category
1940s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Elisa and the Dragon - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1989
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Elisa and the Dragon is an original etching realized by Leo Guida in 1989.
Good condition.
Mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (50x35).
Hand-signed and dateb by the artist.
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
$247 Sale Price
25% Off
The Sibyl - Etching on Paper by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
The Sibyl is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1972 by the Italian artist Leo Guida.
Original Etching on paper.
Numbered, titled and dated on the lower margin in pe...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Etching
Faune Dévoilant une Dormeuse
Located in Berlin, DE
Signed in pencil lower right 'Picasso'. Plate 27 of the 'Suite Vollard'. One of 250 impressions. Paris, Édition Vollard, 1939. On Montval-wove paper watermarked 'Vollard'. One of th...
Category
1930s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Aquatint, Black and White
Oval Head of Man Looking Straight (Plate XXIII), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Oval Head of Man Looking Straight (Plate XXIII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" x 18"
She...
Category
1940s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
The Conversation - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
The Conversation is an original etching realized by Leo Guida in 1972.
Artist's proof.
Numbered, edition of 6.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issu...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Crow on the Branch - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Crow on the Branch is an artwork realized in 1972 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original etching on cardboard.
Hand Signed and dated on the lower r...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Square Head of a Woman Pouting (Plate XIII), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Square Head of a Woman Pouting (Plate XIII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" x 18"
Sheet S...
Category
1940s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Pablo Picasso, "Les Trois Graces, II, " original etching, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
Les Trois Graces, II
1922/23
This is numbered 74/100
Published by Marcel Guiot, Paris.
Original etching, hand signed in pencil by Pica...
Category
1920s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Head of Satyr (Plate XXV), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Head of Satyr (Plate XXV)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" x 18"
Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16...
Category
1940s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Butterfly and Knife - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1970
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Buttefly and Knife is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1970 by the italian artist Leo Guida.
Original Etching on Fabriano paper.Image Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Dated and h...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Salome's Dance - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1989
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Salome's Dance is an original etching realized by Leo Guida in 1989.
Very good condition, hand signed and titled, artist proof.
Mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (50x35 cm)....
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Decadence 3 - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1965
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Decadence 3 is an original etching realized by Leo Guida in 1965.
The artwork is hand-signed by the artist on the lower left corner.
Leo Guida artist sensitive to current issues, a...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Untitled, 1971
Located in Wien, 9
- Plate 118 from the Suite 156
- edition 48/50
- stamp signature
- dated in the plate 17.5.71
- cat. raisonné Bloch 1973; cat. raisonné Baer 1982
Category
1970s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Portrait - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original etching realized in the 1970s by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Good conditions.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
The Boundary - Etching by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
The Boundary is an original etching print realized by Leo Guida in the 1970s.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and historic...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
$132 Sale Price
30% Off
Pablo Picasso -- Untitled from Le Cocu Magnifique
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Pablo Picasso
Untitled from Le Cocu Magnifique, 1966
Etching with aquatint
Hand signed lower right
Numbered 12 / 30
mage size: 22.5 × 32.5 cm
Frame size: 50.5 x 58 x 2 cm
Published ...
Category
1960s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Embrace, 1963 (B.1116)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"The Embrace" is an aquatint on paper, image size 13.75 x 16.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left, and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black and...
Category
20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Sculptor working on a female bust II
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1965
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 23/50
Publisher : Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Printer : Crommelynck
Catalog : [Baer n°1179 Bb1 T. V p. 201...
Category
1960s Abstract Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Carmen Head of a Woman with Closed Eyes (Plate XXII)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Head of a Woman with Closed Eyes (Plate XXII)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 22" x 19"
Sheet...
Category
1940s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Peintre et sa toile avec modèle assis
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Peintre et sa toile avec modèle assis
Etching and aquatint from 1965.
The edition of 33/50.
Dimensions of work: 39 x 51.5 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher:...
Category
1960s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$17,448 Sale Price
20% Off
Carmen, The Man Behind the Mask - Original Etching (Cramer #52)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO
Carmen, The Man Behind the Mask, 1949
Original burin engraving (Atelier Lacourière, Paris)
Unsigned
On Montval wove paper 33 x 26 cm (12.9 x 10.2 in)
REFERENCES :
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Category
1940s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
The Pigeon, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.347)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Pigeon is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.75x 8 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
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