Picasso, a biography by Ripley,Elizabeth - 1959

a4 pile off white: Lippincott, 1959. Hardcover. Good. Condition good, clean. ref ZKVQ Pablo Picasso (Spanish: 1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.

Lodon: Oxford University Press, 1959. Brief history of the artist (70pp) with 32 illustrations. Book is very sound, DJ shows general wear with a few short. closed tears, but is basically intact. Ref:06586. First Edition. Cloth. VG/Good. 21x26cm.