Picasso at the Service of Natural History

Result EUR164,281

Published on 05 October 2021, by Sophie Reyssat

Auction on 23 September 2021 - 14:15 (CEST) - 164 bis, avenue Charles-de-Gaulle - 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine

By providing images for the 18th-century French naturalist's writings, the painter gave a new look to a timeless work.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), original etchings for texts in Buffon's Histoire naturelle,... Picasso at the Service of Natural History

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), original etchings for texts in Buffon's Histoire naturelle, Paris, Martin Fabiani, 1942, quarto sheets in a cardboard cover covered with folded beige curly paper, printed in black, publisher's jacket and slipcase.
Result: €164,281
© PICASSO ESTATE, Paris, 2021

Artists were the focus of this Aristophil sale. Picasso led the way at €164,281, after a high estimate of €30,000, with engravings illustrating the famous book by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle (Natural History)…

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