Verve: Volume I, No. 4 (January - March 1939)
Paris: Verve, 1939. Softbound. Color illustrated paper wraps, 139pp, approx. 45 color plates and 54 BW plates. Good+ lower part of spine is peeling.Old masking tape arounf the top and bottom of spine, about an inch extending onto the front and rear covers at both locations. Item #127666
Text is in French. Contains numerous texts and plates by famous masters, not least of which are text by Paul Valery, Henri Michaux, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Painting reproductions include work from Rousseau, Joan Miro, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Tintoretto. Includes 3 original Lithographs (1 double page) by Matisse (centerfold of The Dance is exquisite) and 7 small lithographs by Andre Derain & the Cover by Rouault. Photographs by Bill Brandt, Brassai, and others. A truly one of a kind magazine, with vividly colored heliogravures reproducing pages of Illuminated manuscripts, etc.
Price: $350.00