Day two hundred and twenty-eight: Continuing to catalog Picasso prints, I was working all day on a portfolio of animals he made in aquatint and drypoint in 1936. The series was made to illustrate an edition of the 18th-century French classic, L’Histoire Naturelle (Natural History) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and published in Paris by Martin Fabriani in 1942. Picasso depicted 31 animals for the book, but no octopus. Maybe Leclerc didn’t write about one either. Regardless, I thought it would be nice to see one added, so here’s my quick study of “Le Poulpe” in the subtle gray tones typical of the aquatint technique.
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