Picasso

Boeck, Wilhelm and Jaime Sabartés. Picasso. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1955. First edition. Large quarto (12″ x 8-1/2″). 524pp. Index and bibliography. Color dust jacket with gray spine lettered in black, over gray & black cloth (a design made especially for this book by Pablo Picasso in July 1955). Illustrated with 606 reproductions, including 38 tipped-in color plates.

“With the publication of this PiCASSO book, the literature on the greatest painter of our century reaches its climax. Few artists of recent times have been so extensively studied and written about as this irrepressible Spaniard, but no single volume has succeeded in showing and telling so much about him and his work.” (OCLC) Near fine – in near fine dust jacket. Hardcover. (53991) $95