Verve. An Artistic and Literary Quarterly. Volume 1, Number 4, January to March 1939
Paris, E. Tériade, 1939.
Large quarto, 140 pages with numerous illustrations, many in colour (complete with the original lithographs by Matisse and Derain, but - curiously - lacking pages 41 to 44: 'The Book of the Hunt by Gaston Phébus, Comte de Foix, Fifteenth Century. Twelve Hunting Scenes').
Flush-cut card covers (featuring a wrap-around design by Georges Rouault); spine a little rubbed, with a few horizontal cracks and short splits at each end of the front joint; stitching a little loose; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy.
The artistic component of this number includes three original lithographs by Henri Matisse (a double-page work, 'The Dance', with two individual 'figures of skaters' on the verso), as well as three drawings by him; seven small lithographs (on four pages) by André Derain; six full-page colour lithographs from 'Tacuinum Sanitatis' (a fourteenth century book of health); and photographs by Brassai and Bill Brandt. Literary contributors include Paul Valéry, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Item #127478
Price (AUD):
$900.00