$400.00
Picasso 347 Volumes 1 and 2 in Slipcase
Picasso executed a series of 347 etchings and other graphic techniques, his largest at the time, between March and October 1968. Filled with wide-ranging erotic fantasies, he intended it as a celebration of life. Random House/Macaenas Press reproduced all the images in 1970 in a superbly printed, two volume, prize-winning book encased in a clamshell slipcase. The reviews and technical specifications are easily referenced. Sadly the slipcase on this offering is badly worn, broken at one end, diminishing the financial value, but not the pleasure and admiration for the work. The two books themselves, essentially unread, are in virtually pristine condition as shown in the accompanying illustrations. Preferably inspected and picked up in Manhattan although it can be shipped to any domestic location. In the scholar, Georges Bloch’s introduction, he states, “Neither Dürer, Rembrandt nor Daumier, all admittedly great and productive printmakers, approaches Picasso either in mastery of the wide variety of graphic techniques or in sheer outpouring of ideas or images. Never has there been a sustained achievement equal to that captured in these pages.” The book is often listed at four times higher, this price hopefully reflects both the intrinsic value and the damaged slipcase.
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$400
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Picasso executed a series of 347 etchings and other graphic techniques, his largest at the time, between March and October 1968. Filled with wide-ranging erotic fantasies, he intended it as a celebration of life. Random House/Macaenas Press reproduced all the images in 1970 in a superbly printed, two volume, prize-winning book encased in a clamshell slipcase. The reviews and technical specifications are easily referenced. Sadly the slipcase on this offering is badly worn, broken at one end, diminishing the financial value, but not the pleasure and admiration for the work. The two books themselves, essentially unread, are in virtually pristine condition as shown in the accompanying illustrations. Preferably inspected and picked up in Manhattan although it can be shipped to any domestic location. In the scholar, Georges Bloch’s introduction, he states, “Neither Dürer, Rembrandt nor Daumier, all admittedly great and productive printmakers, approaches Picasso either in mastery of the wide variety of graphic techniques or in sheer outpouring of ideas or images. Never has there been a sustained achievement equal to that captured in these pages.” The book is often listed at four times higher, this price hopefully reflects both the intrinsic value and the damaged slipcase.
