Picasso For Vollard
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Glue residue on endpapers.
In the annals of twentieth-century printmaking, few collaborations carry the mythic weight of Picasso's legendary suite of etchings created for the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard — a body of work that redefined the boundaries between fine art and the printed page. Picasso for Vollard presents the celebrated Vollard Suite in its full, breathtaking scope: 100 etchings produced between 1930 and 1937, chronicling the sculptor's studio, the Minotaur, and the artist's own turbulent inner world with a mastery of line that remains unrivaled to this day. Published by Harry N. Abrams, this authoritative volume stands as an essential reference for any serious student of modern art, offering high-fidelity reproductions alongside scholarly commentary that illuminates both the technical brilliance and the deeply personal symbolism embedded in each plate. Picasso's printmaking argues its own case for immortality — sensual, mythological, and arrestingly human — leaving the reader to wonder which is the greater creation: the artist, or the world he conjured from copper and ink.
Author: Pablo Picasso
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Glue residue on endpapers.
In the annals of twentieth-century printmaking, few collaborations carry the mythic weight of Picasso's legendary suite of etchings created for the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard — a body of work that redefined the boundaries between fine art and the printed page. Picasso for Vollard presents the celebrated Vollard Suite in its full, breathtaking scope: 100 etchings produced between 1930 and 1937, chronicling the sculptor's studio, the Minotaur, and the artist's own turbulent inner world with a mastery of line that remains unrivaled to this day. Published by Harry N. Abrams, this authoritative volume stands as an essential reference for any serious student of modern art, offering high-fidelity reproductions alongside scholarly commentary that illuminates both the technical brilliance and the deeply personal symbolism embedded in each plate. Picasso's printmaking argues its own case for immortality — sensual, mythological, and arrestingly human — leaving the reader to wonder which is the greater creation: the artist, or the world he conjured from copper and ink.