Anne Baldassari, editorial director of this work, joined the Musee Picasso Paris as curator in 1992, and served as its director from 2005-10 and its president from 2010-14. From her arrival, she instigated a policy of research, exhibition, and publication dedicated to Picasso's works that received international acclaim. She has curated numerous Exhibitions and published a vast body of work on Picasso, including "Picasso and Photography "(1997), "Bacon-Picasso "(2005), "The Surrealist Picasso "(2005), "Picasso: Life with Dora Maar, Love and War 1939-1945 "(2006), and "Cubist Picasso "(2007), all published by Flammarion, and contributed to "Matisse-Picasso "(The Museum of Modern Art, 2002). While the museum was closed for renovation, she organized the itinerant exhibition "Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris," a major retrospective of Picasso's oeuvre that was adapted for each of the host countries. The exhibition was held in a number of prestigious art establishments around the world--from Europe to China or Russia to North America--including the Seattle Art Museum (2010-11), the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (2011), the de Young Museum, San Francisco (2011), and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2012).