Picasso, Pablo - Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Oeuvres 1895-1972. 33 in 34 volumes (complete). With very numerous illustrations on plates. Paris, Éditions "Cahiers d'Art", 1932-1978. 33 x 25.5 cm. Original paper boards with cellophane wrappers (wrappers partly damaged, capitals partly slightly bumped, spine very occasionally with small tear). Arntz I, 88 - Goeppert/Cramer p. 412 - The complete original edition of the monumental catalog raisonné, printed in a small edition (volume 1 in 500 copies, volumes 2-3 in 700 copies), which was published between 1942 and 1978. - Zervos was an art collector, critic and publisher of the art and literary magazine Cahiers d'Art. He was one of the first art critics to write about Pablo Picasso and later became his publisher. Zervos compiled the catalog raisonné of Picasso's works, which is now regarded as fundamental and was published in the Éditions Cahiers d'Art. - Very occasional loose quires, a few volumes with a small compression mark in the upper corner, but otherwise a very well-preserved copy, which is very rare in its entirety. VAT: *