Estimate: | £70 - £100 |
Hammer price: | £45 |
ART REFERENCE - Josep PALAU I FABRE (1917-2008). Picasso. Life and Work of the Early Years 1881-1907. Oxford: Phaidon, 1981, 4to (305 x 295mm). Half title, coloured and monochrome illustrations. Original buckram, dust-jacket, slipcase. With 15 other modern art reference books, namely François Fosca's Corot (Paris, 1930), Jean Leymarie's Picasso. The Artist of the Century (New York, 1972), the same author's Drawing (Geneva, 1979), The Lacquer Pavilion at Suan Pakkad Palace (Bangkok, [n.d.]), Oto Bihalji-Merin's Modern Primitives (London, 1978), Jack Hillier's The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration (London, 1980), Yann le Pichon's Le Monde du Douanier Rousseau (Paris, 1981), Barbara Emerson's Delvaux (Paris, 1985), Charles Stuckley and William Scott's Berthe Morisot (London, 1987), Pierre Rosenberg's Fragonard (Paris, 1987), Paul Duval's Canadian Impressionism (Toronto, 1990), Frank Milner's Frida Kahlo (London, 1995), William Rubin's Picasso et le Portrait (Paris, 1997), Milo Cleveland Beach and Ebba Koch's King of the World. The Padshahnama (London, 1998) and E. H. Gombrich's The Story of Art (London, 2003), all in original cloth or wrappers. (16)