The Paris and Dinard Sketchbooks of 1928 are among the most fascinating documents of Picasso's entire career. In the manner of "graphic diaries" they provide a precise record of the artist's ideas, some of them formulated at breakneck speed, during the second half of that year. The Sketchbooks document one of the most important turning-points in Picasso's style: the resurgence of his interest in abstraction and the deconstruction of form that supplanted the neoclassicism of his earlier work in the 1920s. With an introduction by the Picasso expert Werner Spies, this volume reproduces the Paris Sketchbook complete and 62 sheets from the Dinard Sketchbook.