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PICASSO. BUFFON, G.-L. Leclerc, Count of.
Original etchings to accompany texts by Buffon.
Paris, Martin Fabiani, 26 May 1942.
Fees include commission and taxes.
Original etchings to accompany texts by Buffon.
Paris, Martin Fabiani, 26 May 1942.
Small folio. (2) folios, 155 pages and (3) folios. Loose sheets in a cover of unbleached vellum with large flaps and the title printed in black on the front, inside a cardboard slipcase of sky-blue imitation shagreen paper, with ‘Buffon’ in gold lettering on the spine, the whole housed in a plain grey cardboard slipcase (slipcase worn, very slight oxidation of the paper, a few smudges [title], edges slightly tarnished).
A complete set of 31 superb original “sugar” aquatints, etchings and drypoints by Pablo Picasso.
Etched in black by R. Lacourière and printed by Fequet and Baudier, with watermarks.
Limited edition of 226 copies.
One of the copies on Vidalon watermarked vellum paper, this one being no. 149.
Text printed in red and black. “Following the success of *Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu*, Ambroise Vollard decided to undertake another book with Picasso: *Histoire naturelle*, bringing together a selection of texts by Buffon. Picasso began work on it in February 1936. By June of the same year, almost all the plates engraved by Picasso in Lacourière’s workshops were ready. But Vollard died in July 1936 and it was his partner and successor, Martin Fabiani, who then took charge of publishing the work, which was not printed until July 1942” (Cramer).