Christian Zervos I Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1895 à [1972], 1949-1978, 33 volumes in 34, a fine set of the Picasso catalogue raisonné

Christian Zervos

Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1895 à [1972]. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'Art, 1949–1978

33 volumes in 34 (volume 2 in two parts), FIRST EDITIONS, small folio (314 x 242 mm), numerous plates, black morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, edges gilt

A FINE SET OF THE PICASSO CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ. Zervos first met Picasso in Paris. In 1926 Zervos founded the publishing house Cahiers d'Art and sixteen years later Picasso approved his wish to create as close to an exhaustive catalogue raisonne of the artist's paintings and drawings as possible. Picasso was an enormously prolific creator: upon his death there were more than 45,000 unsold works in his estate. Published between 1942 and 1978, extending to thirty-four volumes, Zervos's work reproduces over 16,000 works.