40 Drawings by Picasso in the Margins of Buffon (40 dessins de Picasso en marge du Buffon)

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40 Drawings by Picasso in the Margins of Buffon (40 dessins de Picasso en marge du Buffon)

Artist Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)

Publisher Berggruen & cie., Paris, 1957

Printer text: Priester Frères, Paris(Henri Jonquières); reproductions: Duval, Paris; linoleum cut: Robert Blanchet, Paris

Date1957

DimensionsSlipcase: H: 15 1/4 in. (388 mm); W: 11 3/8 in. (289 mm); Depth: 1 3/8 in. (35 mm).
Chemise: H: 14 13/16 in. (377 mm); W: 11 1/4 in. (286 mm); Depth: 1 1/8 in. (29 mm).
Book: H: 14 3/4 in. (375 mm); W: 11 1/4 in. (286 mm); Depth: 7/8 in. (22 mm).
Page: H: 14 11/16 in. (373 mm); W: 7/16 in. (11 mm).
Image: H: 6 1/4 in. (158 mm); W: 8 in. (203 mm).

MediumOriginal print: linoleum cut in black. Reproductions: 41 collotypes of ink and brush drawings. Text: letterpess and photolithography. Paper: Arches cream wove paper.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland

Object number

1984.914

Not on View

Label TextIn January 1943, Picasso brought a copy of the just-published EAUX_FORTES ORIGINALS POUR DES TEXTES DE BUFFON (see no. 14) to his mistress Dora Maar. This copy was specially inscribed to her and Picasso further decorated 40 pages of the book with drawings: a bird-woman with Dora Maar's face, heads of a woman (sometimes Dora Maar), heads of men and minotaurs, and sketches of other animals. Fourteen years later, long after Picasso had separated from Dora Maar (moving on to relationships with Francoise Gilot and then Jacqueline Rogue), Jonquieres published this facsimile of the ornamented pages of Dora Maar's Buffon. The deluxe copies of the book, published by Berggruen, contain a linocut, Le Pigeonneau, done in 1939. This was the second print Picasso made in the linoleum cut technique.Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 84

cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 77.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 39.