Picasso and His Time: Museum Berggruen

The Museum Berggruen in Berlin owns one of the world's most important collections of Modern art. Works by three great artists form the nucleus of the museum: Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse. Also in the collection are outstanding works by their contemporaries Alberto Giacometti, Henri Laurens, Georges Braque as well as Paul Cezanne. With more than 350 illustrations, this compelling book offers a broad and unique panorama of "Picasso and his Time". All paintings, drawings and sculptures of the collection are introduced in large-format illustrations, accompanied by thoroughly researched texts, for the first time presenting works of art that were made available to the public after the museum's extension. Contents: The Berggruen Collection; My Father Heinz Berggruen; Catalogue with commentaries of exhibits; Paul Cezanne; Pablo Picasso; Georges Braque; Henri Laurens; Alberto Giacometti; Paul Klee; Henri Matisse; African Art. SELLING POINTS: The completely revised catalogue of the Berggruen Collection; containing 80 pages with more than 380 illustrations with detailed descriptions 391 colour illustrations