Updated 18 April 2025
Currently not on display

Currently not on display
Original Etchings for Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle"
Date | 1936 (pubished in 1942) |
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Materials and Techniques | lift ground etching, scraper, drypoint, engraving |
Size(cm) | 36.8 x 28.3 (book size) |
Standard ref. | Geiser-Baer 575-606; Bloch 328-358 |
Category | Books |
Collection Number | L.1985-0001 |
Provenance
Olympia Gallery, Tokyo; Donated by the Kyoryoku-kai-society of the National Museum of Western Art, 1986.
Exhibition History
- 1986
- Picasso, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 4 October 1986 - 3 November 1986, cat. no. 75-78, repr.
- 1997
- Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 98 ( <II The Donkey> no. 98-1, <XX The Pigeon> no. 98-2)
- 1997
- Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 19 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 63
- 1997
- Pablo Picasso, Kushiroshi Shougai Gakushu Center Art Gallery, 19 July 1997 - 17 August 1997, cat. 38, 39, repr., 40, repr., 41, 42, repr. 43, 44
- 2013
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Picasso's Animals: From an Illustrated Book Based on Buffon's Natural History, Prints and Drawings Gallery, NMWA, 9 July 2013 - 25 August 2013
- 2017
- Picasso and Japanese Art: Charm of various lines, Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi, 14 October 2017 - 3 December 2017, <Le toro espagnol> cat. no. 127, <Le cerf> cat. no. 128, <L’Abeille> cat. no. 129, <La papillon> cat. no. 130, <Laguêpe> cat. no. 131, <La longouste> cat. no. 132, <L’Araignée> cat. no. 133, <La libellule> cat. no. 134, <La sauterelle> cat. no. 135, <La grenouilles> cat. no. 136.
- 2024
- Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2024 - 12 May 2024
Bibliography
- 1968
- Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso: Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié, 1904-1967. tome 1, Berne , Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1968, nos. 328-358, repr.
- 1986
- Baer, Brigitte. Picasso: peintre-graveur: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1935-1945. tome 3, Berne, Editions Kornfeld, 1986 , pp. 29-83, repr.
- 1986
- Picasso (exh. cat.). Musée d'Art Moderne, Gunma, ed. 4 October - 3 November 1986. Takasaki, Musée d'Art Moderne, Gunma, 1986., cat. no. 75, 76, 77, 78.
- 1988
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 18 (1985), 1988, Yaegashi, Haruki. New Acquisitions 1985. pp. 14-15, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1985. pp. 28-47, repr.
- 1995
- Pablo Picasso: die illustrierten Bücher (exh. cat.). Schmidt, Katharina, ed. Kunstmuseum, Basel, 17 December 1995 – 10 March 1996; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, 28 June – 22 September 1996. Ostfildern-Ruit, Gerd Hatje, 1995, cat. no. 37.
- 1997
- Expressiveness of Materials (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1997., cat. no. 63.
- 1997
- Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art (exh. cat.). Hiraishi, Masako et al, eds. The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 1997., cat. no. 98.
- 1997
- Picasso: Hanga (exh. cat.). Kushiro-shi Shogai-Gakushu-Center Gallery, ed. 19 July - 19 August 1997. Kushiro-shi Shogai-Gakushu-Center Gallery, 1997, no.38-44.
- 2017
- Picasso and Japanese art—charm of various lines— (exh. cat.). Kubodo Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi, ed. Izumi, Kubodo Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi, 2017, pp. 90-92, 180, cat. nos. 127-136, col. repr.
- 2024
- Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi; Mochizuki, Kaoru, eds. [Tokyo], Culture Convenience Club; Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 2024, pp. 136, 305, col. repr.