Vintage Pablo Picasso Blue & Rose Periods Lieberman Abrams PB 1954 USA Prints

Authors: Pablo Picasso (artwork) and William S. Lieberman (text)

Book Title: Pablo Picasso Blue and Rose Periods

Format: Vintage oversized softcover art portfolio/picture book with off-white wraps, printed cover image, clear cellophane wrapper, and loose color plates housed in internal paper pockets

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York

Publication year: Copyright 1954; part of the Art Treasures of the World series; printed in the United States of America

Language: English; genre: art and culture; narrative type: nonfiction art monograph and print collection

Topic: Early work of Pablo Picasso during his Blue and Rose periods, early twentieth-century modern art, and full-color reproductions of key paintings

Intended audience: Adult readers, art students, museum professionals, and collectors of midcentury art books and Picasso prints

Details: Portfolio opens with an introductory essay on Picasso's Blue and Rose periods by William S. Lieberman, Curator of Prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, followed by sixteen beautiful full-color plates printed on heavy stock with descriptive captions, reproducing portraits, figure studies, circus scenes, and other characteristic works from these formative phases of Picasso's career; plates are issued as loose sheets to be viewed in sequence or removed for display.

Cover artwork: Color reproduction of a Picasso painting of a young woman in a blue dress on the front wrap, with a statement noting sixteen beautiful full-color prints and the Art Treasures of the World emblem.

Country of origin: Printed in the U.S.A.

Keywords: Pablo Picasso Blue and Rose Periods book, William S. Lieberman Abrams art portfolio, 1950s Art Treasures of the World picture book, vintage softcover Picasso color print collection USA, loose art plates for framing or display