Author: (Picasso, Pablo). Penrose, Roland.
Title: Picasso. The Arts Council of Great Britain 1960. (at the Tate Gallery - 6 July to 18 September). (Catalog).
Description: [London]: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1960. 1960. - Small quarto [9-5/8 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial teal & black wraps. The binding is rubbed & bumped with the head & tail of the spine chipped. There is spotting to the rear wrap with a red stain & a small area of the surface rubbed away. 62 pages plus a section of black-and-white illustrations. Also with 2 color plates, including a frontispiece. The bottom page corners are lightly bumped & there is occasional foxing & soiling. Good.

Third edition. Laid in is a three-page addition to the catalog, listing ten paintings from the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, and from the Pushkin Museum, Moscow. These were ten of thirteen paintings from Russia which the Arts Council had requested, and which it finally managed to obtain, although only a week or two after the exhibition had opened. Good .

Keywords: ART; PAINTER; PAINTINGS; PABLO PICASSO; 1960 EXHIBITION; CATALOG; TATE GALLERY; ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN; ILLUSTRATIONS; ROLAND PENROSE.

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