Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art /
edited by Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein.
- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale, 2010.
- xi, 364 p. : ill. ports. ; 32 cm.
"This catalogue is published in conjuction with the exhibition 'Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art' ... April 27 - August 1, 2010" - t.p. verso.
Includes bibliography (p. 321-351) and index.
Firstly the history of how the Metropolitan Museum of Art came to acquire the works is related. Then each item of the catalogue, whether painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramic plaque or print, is detailed and placed in the historical context of Picasso's working life.