Picasso: The Recent Years 1939-1946.

JANIS, Harriet and Sidney. [Pablo Picasso].

$4,000.00

Item Number: 140734

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946.

Signed limited edition of this compendium of over one hundred reproductions of Picasso’s wartime paintings. Quarto, original  publisher’s half buckram, illustrated with 135 plates. One of three hundred and fifty numbered copies signed by Pablo Picasso on the limitation page, this is number 188. Near fine in the original glassine and rare original slipcase which is in very good condition. An exceptional example.

One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso was extremely prolific throughout the course of his long life and achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments. Picasso: The Recent Years 1939-1946 offers a selection of over one hundred of Picasso's paintings produced during the second world war.