Cockerel is a beautiful silkscreen print of a cockerel on heavy weight paper and one of picassos iconic drawings that use only a few simple lines it was the influence of primitive art in the early 20th century with its simple styling that led picasso to create these simpler line drawings in his later years his single line drawings are so simple but at the same time so powerful as they create so much meaning from one single unbroken line picasso loved animals and kept a huge variety