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Currently not on display

Pablo Picasso

Málaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973

Original Etchings for Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle"

Date 1936 (pubished in 1942)
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.

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