The Zervos Picasso Catalog Is Resurrected

'Go-To Catalogue For Picasso' Returns
'Buste d'homme' by Pablo Picasso is on display during a preview of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art sales in New York on May 3, 2013. Sotheby's is scheduled to hold its Impressionist and Modern Art sales May 7. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand ++RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION++ (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
'Buste d'homme' by Pablo Picasso is on display during a preview of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art sales in New York on May 3, 2013. Sotheby's is scheduled to hold its Impressionist and Modern Art sales May 7. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand ++RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION++ (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

Staffan Ahrenberg, a Swedish collector of contemporary art, was walking along Rue du Dragon in Paris one day in 2010 when he noticed Cahiers d’Art, a legendary gallery and publisher. He recalled seeing Cahiers’s lovingly designed art books, including a famous catalog of Picasso works annotated by Christian Zervos, in his father’s library. He ventured inside and asked two questions: “Who owns Cahiers d’Art?” and “Would he sell it?”

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