La Comédie Humaine is a volume of 164 heliogravures and 12 original color stone lithographs by Picasso. They are Picasso’s interpretation of Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine. Often said to be the writer’s greatest work, La Comédie Humaine addresses themes such as money, power, and social success during the Restoration period after the French Revolution. Picasso’s La Comédie Humaine examines his own personal crisis with aging and its effects on the Artist /Muse relationship.