Verve - The French Review Of Art - Vol 2 - No. 5 - 6, 1939 RARE W/ All Lithographs
Item History & Price
Paris: Verve, 1939. Softcover. VG copy (Great colors, square and sharp pages, binding has one small ding --see image--) only the slightest of wear evident, inside is exceptional. Color-illustrated card covers by Aristide Maillol. 154 pp. with color and bw illus. throughout; some color illus. tipped in. Text in English but for essays by Pierre Reverdy, Alfred Jarry and George Roualt. 28 essays by various author-arti...sts, including Paul Valery, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Michaux, Adrienne Monnier, Marcel Ravel, Ambroise Vollard, Gisele Freund, etc. Extensive illustrations include paintings, illuminations, color lithographs (Guys, Braque, Roualt, Dewrain, Leger, Bonnard, Matisse, Klee), drawings, statues and photos. Stunning lithographs and illuminations.
All Lithographs are inside and in very good shape.
Special double number, comprising fourteen lithographs including 4 by constantin guys (2 colour), 1 by braque (colour), 1 by rouault (colour), 2 by andre derain (1 in colour), 1 by fernand leger (colour), 2 by pierre bonnard (1 in colour), 2 by henri matisse (1 in colour), and 1 by paul klee (colour), with title-page, text and reproductions, published by teriade, paris, each sheet on wove paper.