Picasso and Brassai, Les Sculptures de Picasso 1949

Object Description

Les Sculptures de Picasso.
Photographs by Brassai. Text in French by Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. Published by Les Editions du Chêne, Paris 1949

An important collaboration between Picasso and the great photographer Brassai who chose the artist’s hand as the powerful cover image for this rare and celebrated book.
216 tonally exquisite plates taken by the celebrated photographer Brassai. First major survey of what had been until then an overlooked part of Picasso’s work.

Hardcover. Octavo. Unpaginated. 216 b&w plates.

Object Condition

Good: hardcover with black illustrated boards and black cloth spine with some wear; text block very good and clean.

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