Michael C. Fitzgerald
Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art.
University of California Press, 1996. First paperback printing.0520206533  xiii/313 pages. 
Softcover volume, measuring approximately, displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous textual illustrations.
"Artists don't achieve financial success and critical acclaim during their lifetimes as a result of chance or luck. Michael FitzGerald's assiduously researched book documents Picasso's courting of dealers, critics, collectors, and curators as he established his reputation during the first forty years of the twentieth century. FitzGerald describes the care, patience, and resourcefulness invested by Paul Rosenberg, Picasso's dealer and close collaborator from 1918 to 1940, in building the financial value and public acceptance of Picasso's art. The book is based on and quotes generously from previously unpublished correspondence between Picasso and dealers, collectors, and museum curators."