"A Tome to Rival the Artist Himself"

FStaffan Ahrenberg, a Swedish collector of contemporary art, was walking along Rue du Dragon in Paris one day in 2010 when he noticed Cahiers d’Art, a legendary gallery and publisher. He recalled seeing Cahiers’s lovingly designed art books, including a famous catalog of Picasso works annotated by Christian Zervos, in his father’s library. He ventured inside and asked two questions: “Who owns Cahiers d’Art?” and “Would he sell it?”