La Guêpe
Original etching for Buffon's Histoire Naturelle. Published by Martin Fabiani in Paris, 1942.
Edition of 226.
Picasso's Buffon is one of the greatest bestiaries of the twentieth century. Eager to test out the new technique of sugar-lift aquatint Picasso threw himself into the project completing an etching a day. The spontaneity of the plates is attested by the freehand margins, the rapidly drawn line and the use of fingerprints for textural variety.
Original etching for Buffon's Histoire Naturelle. Published by Martin Fabiani in Paris, 1942.
Edition of 226.
Picasso's Buffon is one of the greatest bestiaries of the twentieth century. Eager to test out the new technique of sugar-lift aquatint Picasso threw himself into the project completing an etching a day. The spontaneity of the plates is attested by the freehand margins, the rapidly drawn line and the use of fingerprints for textural variety.
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Original etching for Buffon's Histoire Naturelle. Published by Martin Fabiani in Paris, 1942.
Edition of 226.
Picasso's Buffon is one of the greatest bestiaries of the twentieth century. Eager to test out the new technique of sugar-lift aquatint Picasso threw himself into the project completing an etching a day. The spontaneity of the plates is attested by the freehand margins, the rapidly drawn line and the use of fingerprints for textural variety.
