Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods

by Pierre Daix, Georges Boudaille

Revised and expanded edition of the massive monograph on subject. Now considered a late-modern classic. A handsome production: Oversize-volume format. Cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Works by Pablo Picasso. Texts by Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille. Commentaries by Guillaume Apollinaire. In pictorial DJ, as issued. Presents what is regarded as one of the best accounts of its subject. The first complete and accurate presentation of all the works of Pablo Picasso during the first period of his full maturity as a great artist. Picasso actively collaborated on this book, particularly in identifying and authenticating over 750 works. The authors supplemented the artist's inputs by checking with primary sources, including the original collectors of the works, the basic documents such as Guillaume Apollinaire's groundbreaking essays on Picasso, which are reproduced and seamlessly woven into the text in their entirety. Picasso also lent the preliminary drawings and sketches that led to the final paintings. This title remains one of the best books written on Picasso and benefits from his active participation, something the posthumous publications, as well-researched and handsomely produced as they are, obviously did not have. 77 black-and-white illustrations, 61 tipped-in color plates. The greatest artist of the 20th century.