'70s Picasso Coffee Table or Library Book First Edition Paris France

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A collectable, first edition (English), 'Picasso', an art coffee table or library book, 1974, New York, New York and Paris, … Read more A collectable, first edition (English), 'Picasso', an art coffee table or library book, 1974, New York, New York and Paris, France. A great piece to add to a collection or to start one.

The amazing 'Picasso', 'FELICIE', "an art book that intimately reveals the life and work of the genius of our century, was created with Picasso's participation and approved by Picasso shortly before his death. - the Felicie."

Introduction:
"What fire is burning in Picasso's eyes?"
"There is no compromising with a flame. Nor with those eyes. They take and command. They are at once a telescope, a microscope, a eury-scope, a fisheye. They see a person's back and face at the same time. Totally. They need no X-rays to penetrate walls. They know what lies behind."

Publisher: FELICIE, Inc., New York
Published: First Edition, English version, September 1974
Author: FELICIE, Inc., in collaboration with Edward Quinn
Printed and bound: Paris, France by master-printer Draeger
Binding: Perfect-bound, hard-cover, four-color process
Dust-Jacket design: A heavy card stock, embossed, covered with gold foil and black copy. Dust jacket has Picasso's face as a 'cut-out' emphasizing his 'eyes'. An amazing dust-jacket that was/is expensive to produce. A great example of the 1970s era New York and Paris.
Designed by: Rene Toutain See less