The ram
(Le Bélier)
1936; printed 1942
plate 4 from the Eaux-fortes originales pour les textes de Buffon (Original etching for the texts of Buffon) series 1942

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
sugar aquatint and drypoint
Measurements
28.4 × 22.6 cm irreg. (image) 36.5 × 27.9 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Baer 579.II.B.b.5; Bloch 332
Edition
2nd of 2 states, edition of 136
Printing/Publishing
printed by Roger Lacourière, Paris; published by Martin Fabiani, Paris
Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: Picasso (underlined)
stamped in red ink on reverse l.l.: National Gallery of Victoria
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: 8 (in a circle)
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.: 6550
Accession Number
P15-1969
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1969
© Pablo Picasso/Sussession Pablo Picasso. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
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