This book was the catalogue for a magnificent exhibition held at the Moma in NYC in 1989 and it has not been equalled ever since. Top-quality illustrations and a groundbreaking text that studies the ins and outs of the relationship between the two founders of Cubism, written by a legendary museum director, himself a friend of Picasso's: in short, one of the best exhibition catalogues ever written which, to this date, remains a reference on the subject of Cubism.

Your art-book dollar can hardly go further than here, with zillions of beautiful color reproductions of Cubist paintings, running the gamut from the early solid days to the dissolved Analytic days to the flat Synthetic years, and even on to some works where the name Cubism cannot really apply. There is also a fascinating timeline with excerpts from correspondence between Picasso, Braque, and their friends, which gives a very personal glimpse into their lives as they carried out this strange artistic journey together. Very often Cubism books feel that because of the generally dull color of Cubist painting, they can get away with black and white reproductions, but you cannot get a real sense of a painting without seeing it in color. Short of a round-the-world trip to every museum in which these paintings are kept, there is no better education you can get on Cubism today.