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1957rif. 339255Paris: Jonquieres 1957. Limited. paperback. near fine. Picasso. Illustrated with 40 numbered lithographic plates in b/w. Folio white printed wrappers within a gray patterned board folder & outer slipcase some repairs but still rough and partially broken. Paris: Henri Jonquieres 1957. Limited Edition -- Number 1002 of 2000 numbered copies on velin du Marais. A very near fine copy in a poor slipcase. In 1942 Fabiani published his celebrated edition of Buffon illustrated with original prints by Picasso. In 1943 Picasso made a series of drawings in a copy of the edition of Buffon which he gave to his mistress and muse at the time Dora Maar. This is a handsome reproduction of all the original drawings in that copy. Jonquieres unknown books
1951rif. 140949991Tokyo: The Yomiuri Shinbun 1951. First edition. Very rare collection of five oversize photogravures by Picasso for the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun newspaper in Tokyo: two ink drawings two lithographs and a design in color crayon "Tranche de pasteque" or "Slice of Watermelon." The others are "Tête de Femme" "Jeux sur la Plage" "Nu Assis de Profil" and "La Colombe The Dove." Various sizes housed in publisher's portfolio with printed boards ties and blue cloth spine measuring 15.75x23.75". Title page shows square of offsetting. Prints Near Fine with a little creasing along edges; slipcase Very Good scuffed and soiled. The Yomiuri Shinbun unknown books
1934rif. 419893New York: Limited Editions Club 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of this translation. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso with six original etchings in black and 30 lithographs. Tall quarto. Illustrated paper over boards. Light chipping at the spine ends wear at the corners and bottom of the front joint mild offsetting on front endpapers from clippings an about very good copy lacking the original glassine chemise and slipcase. One of 1500 numbered copies Signed by Picasso this is the translator Gilbert Seldes' own copy hand noted as copy number "G.S." Provenance on request. The Artist and The Book 226. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
rif. 007388No Place: Gallery of the Humanities Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 26 "w x 20" h. Exhibition poster 26 "w x 20" h. Near Fine faint ripples pencil notations verso faint soiling bottom edge. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. Gallery of the Humanities unknown books
rif. 007553New York: SPADEM/ Pace Gallery Publ. 1986. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 22 1/4"w x 38"h. RARE exhibition poster SIGNED by Paloma Picasso renowned fashion designer and daughter of Pablo Picasso signed lower left and dated by her "86. The exhibition ran at the Pace Gallery New York City from May 2 - August 1 1986. Near Fine faint creases small stain bottom right corner. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. SPADEM/ Pace Gallery Publ. unknown books
rif. 4667Picasso dedicated this charming sketch of a palm like tree and sun to his friend dated June 6 1958. In Spanish Picasso writes "For my friend.Picasso 12.6.58. " The signed drawing measures 4.75 x 6 inches on brown card stock of 6.75 x 9 inches and floats on a dark gray mat overlaid with a white mat matted and framed in museum quality materials with 5/8/inch black satin finished wood. Frame measures 12 ¼ x 13 3/4. Additional images on request. unknown books
rif. PP003New York: Curt Valentin Gallery 1953 With text by Paul Eluard translated by Roland Penrose. First edition first printing. Signed and dated "8.6.54" by Picasso on the title page with an original black ink sketch of a bull's head. Publisher's stapled pictorial yellow wrappers printed in black. Near fine with some toning to wrappers a couple of small closed tears to right edge of front wrapper and Hôtel Drouot auction venue stamp "AUTHENTIQUE / Auteur: blank / Embassy / HÔTEL DROUOT / PARIS - FRANCE" to recto of leaf preceding title page. Overall a scarce original drawing by Picasso of one of his favorite subjects. Between 1950 and 1953 was a highly productive and innovative period for Picasso. During that time he lived in Vallauris in the South of France with Françoise Gilot and their two children and worked out of the perfume-factory-turned-art-studio Le Fournas and at the Madoura workshop. The Nov. 24-Dec. 19 1953 exhibition at Curt Valentin Gallery showcased the range of Picasso's work during those years featuring 28 oil paintings 18 sculptures 6 ceramics 11 lithographs and 2 aquatints. New York Times art critic Howard Devree writes of the exhibition "Here are some of the diabolical deliberately ugly profile-and-full-face-at-once portraits; landscapes semi-abstract and semi-expressionist which are powerful formal organizations; ceramics such as 'The Picador' which are primarily decorative; sculptures such as the preternaturally wise or witch-like owls in several media; at least one figure 'The Kneeling Woman' in which he seems to have extended cubism; lithographs and aquatints which make one marvel anew at his unmatched wizardry of linear expressiveness " Nov. 29 1953. The bull was a recurring and totemic motif in Picasso's work throughout his entire career. His fascination with the animal stemmed from childhood when he was often taken by his father to Spanish bullfights in his hometown in Málaga Spain. Even in the Curt Valentin exhibition there were multiple works related to bulls and bullfighting including the ceramics "Blue Picador" "Picador" and "Toreador." Hôtel Drouot is a historic auction venue in Paris France that has been in operation since 1852. The venue has long been recognized as the keystone of the Paris art market and is home to about 70 independent auction firms. . Inscribed. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Near Fine. New York: Curt Valentin Gallery [1953] paperback books
1964rif. 53693Monte-Carlo: André Sauret - Editions du Livre 1964. First edition. Softcover. Very good/very good. Folio 9 5/8 x 12 1/2". 159 3pp. Original glassine over lithographic dustjacket. Lithographic frontispiece. Title page in brick and black lettering. Illustrated throughout some in color. Complete with its two original lithographs dustjacket and frontispiece this volume is a splendid pictorial inventory of Pablo Picasso's prints executed between 1956 and 1963. It is the fourth and last volume of an extensive 4-vol. set catalogue raisonné listing all of the artist's lithographs between 1919 and 1963. Glassine damage to spine strip along front and back covers with chips and some spotting at fore edge. Text in French. wrappers and interior in very good condition. André Sauret - Editions du Livre unknown books
rif. 221711/1/50. The most prodigious artistic talent of the twentieth century came from his native Spain to settle in Paris at the turn of the century and art and the art world were never the same again. His companion is writer Pierre Bertrand to whom the photo is inscribed. 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches. A half-length portrait inscribed on the lower margin: ""Pour Pierre Bertrand / Picasso."" unknown books
1952rif. 36197New York: Curt Valentin Gallery 1952. Fine/Very Good. New York: Curt Valentin Gallery 1952. First Edition. Small octavo; ten pamphlets collected in one volume; publisher's cloth original wrappers bound in white pictorial dust jacket. Jacket flap folds and spine panel toned light dust-soil contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Quite scarce annual from the New York City gallery featuring solo exhibitions of Pablo Picasso Mary Callery Marc Chagall Henri Matisse and others. Curt Valentin Gallery unknown books
1962rif. 2480Paris Imprimerie Mourlot. 1962. Mourlot 382 Bloch 1298. Original lithograph exhibition poster in 3 colors 652 x482 25.66" x 18.97" on paper with two Arches watermarks. From the edition of 2000 impression published by Alex Maguy. In perfect condition with full deckle edge margins. Alex Maguy books
1988rif. 338680London: Tate Gallery 1988. hardcover. fine. Picasso. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. 311 pages. 4to green cloth with pictorial label. London: Tate Gallery 1988. Fine. This editiion of the exhibition catalogue is dedicated to the Tate's International Council. Tate Gallery unknown books
1988rif. 210193Stockholm: Moderna Museet 1988. Hardcover. VG/G. Jacket has numerous tears around the had of spine lighter wear around the edges and spine is sunned. Book is clean and unmarked. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in grey cloth with orange illustrated jacket. 247 pages : illustrations some color ; 29 cm. "Pablo Picasso Moderna nuseet Stockholm 15/10 1988-8/1 1989"--Title page verso./ Includes bibliographical references pages 225-232. Moderna Museet hardcover books
1999rif. 138231Ostfildern-Ruit Germany: Hatje Cantz 1999. Softcover. VG light shelf wear to wraps and corners pages are otherwise very crisp and clean. Color illustrated wraps French flaps 192 pp. 52 color plates 30 BW illus. Text is in German and English. Issued in conjunction with a 1999 exhibition featuring special Picasso pieces. With essays by Kornella von Berswordt-Wallrabe Kornella Roder Gerhard Graulich Karin Moller and Sabine Fett and photographs by Edward Quinn. Includes bio and bibliography. Hatje Cantz paperback books
1980rif. 338369New York: Alpine Fine Arts 1980. hardcover. fine/fine. Picasso Pablo. Introduction by Georges Boudaille. 32 pages of text in English & Spanish followed by the illustrations which reproduce 3 of Picasso's sketchbooks drawn in 1959. Folio white cloth with multi-colored pictorial covers matching pictorial dust wrapper. New York: Alpine Fine Arts 1980. First edition thus a reprint of the 1961 edition by Abrams. Scarce. Often seen with sunning at cloth edges this is a fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. A handsomely printed book. The plates many of which are single-sided are printed in black & white sepia and full color. Alpine Fine Arts unknown books
1972rif. 40267Barcelona: Gustavo Gili 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/1000. Oblong octavo. 87 3pp Text volume. Original glassine over printed dust-jacket and blind wrappers Text volume. Original full beige cloth Sketchbook. Books housed in their original green box with title laid on front board. Splendid facsimile of an early Picasso sketchbook bound in beige cloth accompanied by a softcover monograph with text in Spanish French and English. The sketchbook reproduced in facsimile is one of the 17 small original sketchbooks that Pablo Picasso donated to the Museo Picasso in Barcelona. In spite of the initial difficulty in dating the sketchbook seeing as there were no indications as to when the drawings were done it has finally been possible to place them at the end of 1900 thanks to the help of Picasso himself who places their execution at the time of his first trip to Paris. On the pages of the album a view of the surrounding reality was shaped: thirty characters of different ages and sexes belonging to different social strata. This series of drawings was done in the streets and parks of Paris. One of 1000 copies of which this is No. 836. Minor shelf wear soiling and rubbing to box. Text in Spanish French and English. Box in overall good binding wrappers and interior in very good condition. Gustavo Gili hardcover books
1922rif. 37572Paris: Maurice de Brunoff 1922. Limited First edition. Paperback. g to g. 1/500. Folio. 8 21 3pp text 54 leaves plates. Uncut. Original glassine on decorative and printed dust-jacket over blind wrappers. Book housed in its original decorative green paper covered slipcase with gold lettering and decoration on spine and along joints. Raised bands. Limitation page signed by both Léon Bakst and Editor Maurice de Brunhoff. Color illustration pasted on title page. Stunning lithographic frontispiece portrait of Bakst after a drawing by Picasso. Decorative head- tailpiece and initial. In 1921 the opportunity arose for Sergei Diaghilev the renown Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes to present Tchaikovski's "La Belle au Bois Dormant" at the Alhambra Theatre in London using the notes that the Ballet Master Nicholas Sergeyev had kept from pre-Revolutionary Russia. It was to be a production of great magnificence designed by Léon Bakst and the first time the typically Russian full-length ballet in five scenes would be performed in England. Petipa's choreography preserved through the use of Stepanov notation was restaged by Nicolas Sergueev stage manager for the Maryinski Theatre. Bronislava Nijinska younger sister to Nijinski and also a dancer and choreographer adjusted several enchaînements and supervised the whole show. Olga Spessivtseva was Aurora Pierre Vladimirov the Prince and Lydia Lopokova alternated with Bronislava Nijinska in the role of the Lilac Fairy. Stanislav Idzikowski proved to be a brilliant Blue Bird. Carlotta Brianza who had created the title role of Sleeping Beauty in 1890 in Saint Petersburg played Carabosse this time. The superb scenery and costumes were designed by Léon Bakst. This stunning signed limited first edition contains the complete 54 mounted color plates depicting the exotic sumptuous and richly colored costumes and sets designed by Bakst for this memorable London performance. His ingenious designs in conjunction with Diaghilev's radical and provocative choreography helped revitalize ballet and lay the framework for modern interpretive dance. Each of the mounted color plates measures 15 1/4 x 11" image appr. 10 1/2 x 6 3/4" and is protected with a captioned tissue guard. One of 500 copies of which this is No.358. Gold lettering and decoration partly faded on slipcase. Water staining on boards. Glassine age-toned and chipped at tail of spine. Creasing along dust-jacket's spine. Wrappers intact. Book block separating. 11 plates loose. Moderate and sporadic creasing on tissue-guards. Text in French. Slipcase and glassine in overall fair to good dust-jacket in good wrappers and interior in good plates in very good condition. Maurice de Brunoff paperback books
1954rif. 36324Paris: Les Éditeurs Français Réunis 1954. Limited edition. Paperback. g. 1/430. Quarto. 90 2pp. Unopened copy. Original glassine over blank wrappers in illustrated dust-jacket. Title page in burgundy and black lettering. Picasso illustrated this essay of Diderot's with four portraits of the great thinker whose mind "anticipated and epitomized moral psychological and social opportunities and stresses attending the assimilation of science into culture" DSB 4: 84. The portraits are reproduced in lithograph print form by Mourlot Frères Paris. One of 430 copies printed on vélin pur Lafuma of which this is No. 369 of a general edition of 530 copies. Glassine sunned with minor and sporadic chipping along edges. Upper corners bumped thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Text in French. Glassine in overall fair to good- dust-jacket wrappers and interior in good to very good condition. Les Éditeurs Français Réunis paperback books
2015rif. 626668New York: The Museum of Modern Art 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry. Quarto. 320pp. Illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. "Published in conjunction with the first large-scale retrospective of Pablo Picasso's sculpture in the United States in almost a century" from the jacket. The Museum of Modern Art hardcover books
1967rif. 1415181Paris: Editions Cercle d'Art 1967. Hardcover. Quarto 199 pages booklet xvi pages. In Good plus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is white with black print. Dust jacket has slight edge wear light soiling damp stain to spine. Boards in oatmeal cloth with multicolor Picasso signature on front panel. Text block has light spotting to endpapers. Illustrated: tipped in b&w frontispiece portrait and color plates. Accompanied by booklet: xvi pages b&w photographs. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Netdesk Column QB ND-QB. 1415181. FP New Rockville Stock. Editions Cercle d'Art hardcover books
2008rif. 216578San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 2008. Hardcover. VG. As new besides from previous owners bookplate on title page. Quarto. Hardcover. Bould in olive cloth with glossy illustrated jacket. XIX 385 pages illustrations 32 cm. Alan Wofsy Fine Arts hardcover books
1960rif. 216419New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers 1960. Hardcover. VG. Lightest touches of wear and a bookplate inside front cover to this scarce volume. Quarto. Hardcover. Illustrate boards in acetate jacket with blue/white titles. 1 portfolio 14 unnumbered pages text 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 44 cm. "This edition limited to one thousand copies"--cf. verso front cover of sketchbook./ Text in separate volume enclosed in portfolio with facsimile of sketchbook./ Subtitle precedes title./ Many plates printed on both sides./ "Printed in France"--cf. verso front cover of sketchbook. "Printed in the Netherlands"--cf. verso title page text volume. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers hardcover books
1965rif. 2784France: np 1965. First edition. Very Good. Cecil Beaton. INSCRIBED BY PICASSO IN RED AND BLUE CRAYON TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER CECIL BEATON: "pour Cecil Beaton. Ami Picasso 9.6.65.". Cecil Beaton British 1904 -1980 photographed virtually every prominent person in public life over the course of his career which spanned more than half a century. Everyone from the Queen to the Rolling Stones sat before his lens. As an arbiter of glamor the opportunity to sit for Beaton represented the pinnacle of success for many but in some cases it was Beaton who pursued the sitter and he had followed Pablo Picasso Spanish 1881 - 1973 long before they first met. As one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century Picasso was sought after by many who wanted to rub elbows with success. He became one of those whom Beaton photographed several times over a period of many years first at the rue de la Boetie in Paris in 1933 then at the rue Augustins in 1944 and finally at Mougin in the south of France in 1965. Vickers. In addition to taking photographs Beaton wrote about Picasso in his private diary sketched his portrait and after the 1965 sitting wrote a profile of Picasso for Vogue Magazine. Photographs from Picasso's home in the hills above Mougin reveal a close bond between the two men. Here they appear relaxed comfortable with one another and with a gleam in their eyes. By then Picasso was 84 years old and still painting late into the nights. Writing in Vogue Beaton describes Picasso's energy as he gave Beaton a tour of the sprawling studio crowded with paintings some still wet with paint and others from decades before. Beaton wrote of Picasso's welcome: "Pablo said 'It has been twenty years since I last saw you!' A golden Picasso threw open his arms. 'After so long we must embrace.'" The two then made much fun about the passage of years and how they had aged. Beaton. A clear sign of affection Picasso inscribed select prints and dedicated them to Beaton. Picasso writes in red and blue crayon on this print: pour Cecil Beaton. Ami Picasso 9.6.65. The print stands as testament to the kinship between the two artists. Provenance: With stamp "From the Beaton Studio / Sotheby Parke Bernet" on verso sold Sothebys Parke Bernet 1978. Also with stamped notation "1/1" possibly indicating that this is a unique print. We have not been able to locate any others. Silver gelatin print. Signed inscribed and dated by Pablo Picasso "pour Cecil Beaton / Ami / Picasso 9.6.65" in red and blue ink recto. Image: 111â„4 x 73â„4 in. 28.5 x 19.6 cm.; sheet: 111â„2 x 91â„4 in. 29.2 x 23.4 cm. Majestically framed to an overall size of 24 x 19.5 in. Small abrasion evident to the right of Beaton's left ear; otherwise fine. References: Vickers Hugo ed. Cecil Beaton: Portraits & Profiles. London: Frances Lincoln 2017. P 152. Beaton Cecil. "Golden Picasso" Vogue Magazine volume 146 November 15 1965. np unknown books
1932rif. 2650Paris: np 1932. Fine. MAN RAY CAPTURES PICASSO'S ESSENCE IN LEGENDARY PORTRAIT. AN ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE: From the famous Sotheby's sale of 1995 of items from the "Estate of Juliet Man Ray The Man Ray Trust and the Family of Juliet Man Ray". The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants Emmanuel "Manny" Radnitzky 1890-1976 grew up in Brooklyn New York. He displayed creative abilities from a young age and studied to be a painter. He adopted "Man Ray" as his pseudonym and in 1915 formed the New York group of Dada artists with Marcel Duchamp. In the 1920s and 1930s Paris was the destination for the international avant-garde offering an exceptional number of galleries art dealers and wealthy patrons who promised artistic freedom. Man Ray sailed to the "City of Light" in 1921 joined Parisian Dada and Surrealist circles and became intimate associates with Pablo Picasso Max Ernst and other leading artists. He pursued fashion and portrait photography creating a pantheon of the city's cultural life. "As a photographer I was in demand" Ray explained to John Bainbridge a writer at The New Yorker. "I was like a doctor. Everybody needed me." Bolz To be photographed by Man Ray meant you had made it in the Parisian art world. Ray often said that Old Masters especially Hans Holbein the Younger Rembrandt and Vermeer inspired his portraits. "I. admired the respect with which they treated the proportions of human features" he wrote in an article published in Modern Photography magazine in November 1957. He also made considerable technological advancements in the field by creating "rayographs" photographic images composed of ordinary objects placed on photo sensitive paper exposed to light and developing solarization the process of tone reversal observed in cases of extreme overexposure. "I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint the things which already have an existence" Ray said. Schwarz 10 Ray sought to create a sense of drama and mystery believing that his photography could transcend the mechanical nature of a camera. When photographing his friends and colleagues Ray's emotional and psychological insights allowed him to expose the soul of each subject. One such subject and friend was Pablo Picasso. Man Ray and Picasso met in 1921 in Paris. They became friends through their connection to Surrealism spending holidays together and collaborating on creative pursuits. In his autobiography Man Ray described Picasso: "He gave me the impression of a man who was aware of all that was going on about him and in the world in general a man who reacted violently to all impacts but had only one outlet to express his feelings: painting." Man Ray 177 The intensity and awareness that Man Ray described is masterfully captured in his portraits of the painter. This photo we have on offer is from Man Ray's renowned series of Picasso portraits and coincided with the publication of the first volume of Picasso's catalogue raisonné reflecting the critical position Picasso's work occupied in the French artistic establishment. In this almost sculptural photograph from 1932 Man Ray unusually presented Picasso in an open trench coat over his jacket and tie. Picasso's dark hair is slicked down and his smooth face looks directly into the camera. Ray used light on the outlines of Picasso's face to create a contemplative image that showed him as a dark and shadowy figure juxtaposed against the light background. Picasso's riveting gaze also conveys a reflective and sober mood. This print has the Man Ray stamps M28 and M30 on the reverse and was lot 348 from the sale of the "Estate of Juliet Man Ray The Man Ray Trust and the Family of Juliet Man Ray" Sotheby's March 22 and 23 1995. Man Ray and Picasso remained close confidantes after this collaboration and during the summer of 1937 Man Ray filmed his friends including Pablo Picasso during a trip to the French Riviera. The result was On the French Riviera with Man Ray and Picasso a documentary film which portrayed the friendship of Picasso and Ray at the center of a close-knit community of artists. German occupation led Ray to leave Paris for the United States in 1940. He lived and worked in New York and Los Angeles returning to Paris in 1951 and resuming his friendship with Picasso and other artists. Ray died in Paris in 1976 yet his creativity and innovative techniques which demonstrate the distinctive cultural landscape of Paris during the interwar period had a substantial influence on contemporary art. Contributing to magazines like Vogue Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar he paved the way for Richard Avedon Annie Leibovitz and other artistic photographers. Ray achieved international recognition for his photography which he elevated to an art form. On May 14 2022 Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres 1924 sold for $12.4 million setting a new world record as the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. He was a masterful portraitist renowned for capturing the essence of his subject's personality and mood. This collaboration between two of the most prolific creative and eclectic artists of the twentieth century had truly spectacular results. Provenance: Sotheby's London 22nd and 23rd March 1995 Lot 348: "Property of the Estate of Juliet Man Ray The Man Ray Trust and the Family of Juliet Man Ray." Image/Print Size: 9 x 11 3/4 in. Elegantly framed with wooden frame under UV-protecting museum glass to an overall size of 20 ½ x 24 ½ inches. Paris: 1932; printed later. Silver print. With Man Ray stamps on reverse: M28 and M30 - 'Man Ray 31 bis Rue Campagne Première Paris XIVe' and the copyright stamp ADAGP. Fine condition. References: Diane M. Bolz. "Visual Moment: Man Ray in Paris." Moment Magazine. Winter Issue 2022. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Man Ray." Encyclopedia Britannica. 14 Nov. 2022. Arthur Lubow. Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows. New Haven: Yale University Press 2021. Man Ray. Photographs by Man Ray: 1920 Paris 1934. Hartford: James Thrall Soby 1934. Man Ray. Self Portrait. London: Bloomsbury 1988. Man Ray and Jean-Hubert Martin. Man Ray Photographs. London: Thames and Hudson 1982. Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. London: Thames and Hudson 1977. Slate Photo. "Man Ray's Portraits." Slate Magazine. February 6 2013. Alden Whitman. "Man Ray is Dead in Paris at 86; Dadaist Painter and Photographer." The New York Times. November 19 1976. np unknown books
2005rif. 57821Munich: Prestel 2005. First Edition. Signed by Ms. Picasso on the half-title page. Diana Widmaier Picasso is a French art historian specialized in modern art living in Paris. She is the daughter of Maya Widmaier-Picasso and the maternal granddaughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter. After a Master's degree in private Law from Paris-Assas University and a master's degree in art history from Paris-Sorbonne University—her thesis was about the art market in France in the seventeenth century—she decided to specialize in old master drawings. She worked on several exhibitions in museums Metropolitan Museum in New York Institut Néerlandais in Paris and later became an expert in old master drawings at Sotheby's in London and Paris for three years. Since 2013 she is working on a catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures with a team of researchers. Uncommon to find a signed copy. Quarto: pictorial clorh issued without a dust jacket; 144 pages. Illustrated. Very Good few tiny dings to edges; short crease & small crease frontispiece tissue guard; contents clean & tight. Prestel unknown books
