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Description: VERVE Magazine : An Artistic And Literary Quarterly Volume 1, issues 1-4 1937-1939 First edition. English language edition. complete with all lithographs, all printed at Mourlot Frères in Paris Vol 1 : December, 1937, cover design by Henri Matisse includes original lithographs by Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, Abraham Rattner and Francisco Borès. Vol 2 : Spring, 1938, cover design by Georges Braque includes original lithographs by Wassily Kandinsky (x2) and André Masson (x2) as well as a portfolio of 8 full-page lithographs from a 14th century manuscript. Vol 3 : Oct-Dec 1938 , cover design by Pierre Bonnard includes original lithographs by Marc Chagall, Abraham Rattner, Joan Miro and Paul Klee as well as 6 lithographs from "The Indian Pantheon". Vol 4 : January- March, 1939 , cover design by Georges Rouault includes original lithographs by Henri Matisse (x3), one of them double paged, 2 original lithographs by André Derrain 8 lithographs from the "Tacuinum Sanitaris". full of articles by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Andre Gide, Jean Paul Sartre, James Joyce, Andre Malraux, Federico Garcia Lorca, Georges Braque, John dos Passos etc drawings by Matisse photographs by Man Ray, Blumenfeld. List, Brandt, Brassai etc heliogravure reproductions of photographs, artworks "cloth tears and loss, magazines inside are very good, a few small page edge tears, lithographs all very good (a couple of small tears)
Seller: Sheapast Art and Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.