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The inaugural issue of VERVE, the influential modernist magazine – original lithographs - texts in English.
Teriade, E. (director), André Gide, Georges Bataille, Henri Michaux, André Malraux, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, Abraham Rattner, Francisco Borès, Man Ray.
Verve, Volume One No. 1; An Artistic and Literary Quarterly Appearing in December, March, June and October
Paris: Verve / Skira, 1937.
FIRST EDITION, Large 4to, 14 x 10 1/2 inches (355 x 264 mm); front and back cover specially designed by Henri Matisse; title page, 2-page index, 4 color lithographs by Léger, Miró, Rattner and Bores (the Four Elements); 112 pages with copious black
white and color illustrations and photographs, plus 4 large plates in color and gilt, full-size heliogravure reproductions of paintings from manuscripts in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Texts in English. Paper cover is torn at spine with bottom piece missing, index pages detached, stitched binding somewhat loose and pages toned; some foxing in the last unnumbered pages. Overall in good and unmarked condition; includes the subscription form loosely inserted.
The inaugural issue of the modernist magazine VERVE, published by Teriade (Stratis Eleftheriades) between 1937 and 1960 for a total of 38 issues. Each issue was published at the same time in French and ENGLISH, and each issue included lithographs by the most prominent artists of the Parisian art scene of the first half of the 20th century and texts by influential writers including Gide, Malraux, Dos Passos, Joyce, Hemingway. This first issue features artwork specially designed by Henri Matisse for the cover as well as a series of drawings and an essay by Matisse titled "Divagations," some early letters and sketches from Cézanne to Émile Zola, and the first photo of Picasso’s Guernica by Dora Maar.
Along with the four color lithographs printed by Mourlot, this issue contains texts by Gide, Bataille, Caillois, Dos Passos, Malraux, Michaux, etc. reproductions of works by Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Bonnard, Maillol, etc. and of photographs by Man Ray, Brassaï, Blumenfeld, etc.
VERVE was "the magazine to look for" ... "noble format, luxurious presentation... flair for the grand gesture" (John Russell, "Flair for the Grand Gesture: Celebrating a Magazine." The New York Times, 10/9/1988, page H35).
"When it comes to quality in the magazine process, possibly no other magazine can match the work of publisher Efstratios Teriade (born in Greece as Efstratios Eleftheriades) and his seminal publication, 'Verve' -- once called 'the most beautiful magazine in the world' by one of its backers - which first burst onto the streets of Paris in December of 1937." (Gagliano, Rick "Magazine of the Week" in Downtown Magazine, 10/12/2006].
Condition: Good+
- Dimensions:Height: 13.98 in (35.5 cm)Width: 10.4 in (26.4 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1 cm)
- Style:Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1937
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Middletown, NY
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