Taschen portfolios feature high quality prints suitable for framing. Tucked in each portfolio are 14 large-format reproductions, each with a brief description. Guaranteed to brighten up any day, they also make great gifts for art lovers.

One of Taschen's new art albums, tremendous value at 3.99.

Offers an exploration of Matisse's world, uncovering the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for modern art. This volume tells the story of Matisse's growing artistic maturity and the relationship between his life and art from 1909 to 1954, his glory years.

The works selected for this pocket-book cover artist Pablo Picasso's entire output, from the less familiar to key masterpieces such as Guernica , from the Blue and Rose Periods through his cubist and classicist phases to his later involvement with politics in art.

The first volume of this biography emphasized Picasso's Spanish roots from Malaga to Barcelona. This second volume covers ten pivotal years of Picasso's life. It describes his relationship with Cocteau, his affair with Fernande Olivier, and the influence of women on his art.