This beautifully produced volume - a fitting monument to the artist on the centennial of his birth - presents an almost complete catalog of Piccaso's paintings and drawings from 1892, when he was eleven, to the epochmaking Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907. A remarkable panorama is contained in these pages, which investigate the ealiest of Picasso's celebrated "styles", including the sensitive and melancholy works of the Blue and Rose periods and culminating in the explorations and distortions of form and volume inspired by African art, works that shocked the whole world into a new way of seeing and that changed, almost overnight, centuries-old traditions of Western aesthetics. The seeds of Cubism were herewith sown.