Picasso

First Edition. Reproducin — New York: Random House/Maecenas Press 1970. 2 Volumes. oblong folio. 347 full-page illus. original beige linen-backed black cloth t.e.g. Fine copy front free-endpaper in Vol. I creased in matching original velveteen-lined drop-back box. First Edition. Reproducing the 347 intaglio prints engravings etchings dry points aquatints and mezzotints which Picasso executed at Mougins from March 16 to October 5 1968. "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. All the prints included here were produced in an incredibly short time always with superb mastery of the medium. Viewed in toto these images dreams and visual poems by the greatest artist of our time seem <br /><br /> New York: Random House/Maecenas Press, [1970] hardcover