This book explores in great detail an aspect of the artist’s late graphic output: the linoleum block or linocut. In this book, published prints and their related proofs drawn from a notable private collection are examined in the context of themes Picasso developed over his entire career: the Spanish-born artist’s love of the corrida or bullfight; his interest in Antiquity; and, above all, his competition with the Old Masters. This U.S. private collection, while wide-ranging in 20th-century European and American paintings and works on paper, has a particular concentration in prints by Picasso, amassed over many decades. Beginning with the artist’s first print, Le Repas frugal (1904), and several prints from the Vollard Suite, the collection is especially strong with fine examples of the later linocuts, including the examples in the book (works from the collection have been featured on loan and in exhibitions at museums around the country).