Pablo Picasso - Suite Vollard
Teufen, Switzerland: Arthur Niggli, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiv (i), 100 plates. Original illustrated light blue cloth with blue lettering on spine, housed in black cardboard slipcase with illustration laid to cover. Introduction by Hans Bollinger. One hundred etchings by Picasso created between 1930 and 1937. The series was commissioned by the dealer Ambroise Vollard. "It is a majestic sequence combining a restless formal inventiveness within the limits of a completely open 'classical' line with an exploration into... the ceaseless shift of tension between maturity and youth, male and female, mental power and physical beauty." (The Times). Text in German. Slipcase with light wear along edges. Binding lightly sunned with faint traces of foxing along spine, here sunning more pronounced. Lightly starting at inside front cover. Binding and slipcase in overall good to good+, interior in very good condition. g. Item #48543
Price: $325.00