Verve Issues, Used (14 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. 1st Edition. Bound in cloth covered boards--the aforementioned cloth is fraying a bit, and seems ill-chosen for the work at hand, depicting, as it does, some European villa and sundry patterned flowers. The interior is very bright, with all lithographs present. Owner's name and appealingly weird insignia to front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Verve was a lavish, French art and literary quarterly magazine, published in Paris, France. It was known for its high-quality reproductions of artwork and contributions from prominent artists and writers. The reproductions of artwork contained within would use techniques like heliogravure in color and black and white, as well as lithography. E. Teriade, the magazine's director, envisioned this publication would present the work of the artists and writers in the most perfect way possible. While it featured both French and English editions, this set of three issues bound in one are in English. Bound in burnt dark orange publisher's cloth, the cover bears the magazine's title, "Verve" in metallic silver at the bottom corner of the cover and along the spine. The three issues bound together in this one book are Volume 1, No. 2, March-June of 1938; Vol. 1, No. 3, October-December of 1938; and Vol. 1, No. 4, January-March, 1939. Profusely illustrated with artwork by many artists in black and white, including actual lithographs, bound in. The value in this book is completely in the lithographs themselves. FURTHER DETAIL OF CONTENTS:Spring 1938 (March-June). Volume One, Number Two. Includes all lithographs: "The Twelve Mansions of Heaven", and "The Heavenly Bodies" (Stars and Comets by Kandinsky; and The Sun and The Moon by Andre Masson). No. 3 (October-December, [1938]). Volume One, Number Three. Includes all lithographs: "The Indian Pantheon" (Birth of Vishnu; Saint at Prayer; Death of Bali; Demons of Ceylon; Planetary Divinities of Ceylon; and Playful Divinities), and "The Four Seasons" (Spring by Marc Chagall; Summer by Joan Miro; Autumn by Rattner; and Winter by Paul Klee). No. 4 (January-March, 1939). Volume One, Number Four. Includes all lithographs: "Tacuinum Sanitatis, Fourteenth Century Book of Health, Italian School, (Rye, Gourds, Sage, Veal, Clothes, Millet, Dill, New Wine); "The Dance" by Henri Matisse; and "The Garden of Allah" by Andre Derain.CONDITION: External cover shows wear and scratching, particularly along the edges. Inside, the cover of Volume One, Number Two has a 1/2 inch closed tear at the foot near the gutter. Leaves have lightly toned, yet are completely unmarked. Lithographs are bold and magnificent, all of which are present. Hinges are strong and the binding is sound. A solid copy containing three issues in one. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the size and weight of this book, an additional shipping charge may apply and will be requested after purchase. This copy will arrive with "signature required" upon delivery. Full refund if not satisfied.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Complete. All lithographs & leaves are present. Bright, flat, and fresh. No marks. Sharp edges. Excellent color. Remarkably, two of the original boxes are mostly present (worn and in pieces) as well as the subscription order card in No. 1. Total of 432 pp; 4.75 pounds. (In English. Published and printed in France.) No. 1 has an intact binding that opens wide in a few spots. Please note: these are oversized 90 year old periodicals with admirably heavy paper; some leaves will detach at some point in the future. Covers are by Matisse, Braque, and Bonnard. A rich roster of contributors including some vibrant examples of Modernist lithography as refined in Paris between the Wars (at and in collaboration with Mourlot Studios.) Matisse, Chagall, Miro, Joyce, Gide, Tagore, Claudel, List, Blumenfeld, Bonnard, Klee, Zucca, Verger, Man Ray, Cartier, Picasso, Brassai, Guichard, Maillol, Derain, Vollard, Cezanne, Zola, Delacroix, Malraux, Hemingway, Bataille, Giotto, Kandinsky, et al.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Issues 9 12 (1943 1945). The Fouquet of the National Library; Images of the Life of Jesus; The Life of Jesus by Jean Fouquet; The Virgin and the Saints by Jean Fouquet. Texts by Paul Valéry and Henri Malo. Includes full-page color reproductions of paintings by Jean Fouquet. All four issues bound together in cream cloth over boards, with the original softcovers preserved inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. 16 lbs Color Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tall; *Verve, Volume One, Number Three, October-December. [ contains colored lithos Bonnard 2, Rattner, Klee, probably lacking Chagall and Miro] *Verve, No. 8, Vol. 2, September- November 1940[with tipped in note stating it was shipped just days before the German occupation; Roualt etc, tipped in plates]. *Verve, Vol. IV, No. 13. *Stage - February 1936 with George M. Cohan on the cover. [Verve bound without wrappersVol 1 No 3 Oct- Dec 1938Colored lithos Pantheon present Four Seasons- Miro & Chagall missing, Rattner & Klee presentVol 2, No 8 Sept-Nov 1940 Color litho Bonnard 2pp present. Vol IV No 13 1945 Lacking frontis Pp 57-58 and 59-60 present 2 portraits of Angèle Lamotte on Marais]. Bound with "Stage" [wraps present]*Stage - July 1936 *Stage - August 1936 *Stage - November 1936. Uncollated. Clean. Solidly bound in red cloth with fraying to head and crown. Apr 600-800pp. Many color plates, lithos, etc. Covers bound in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Verve: An Artistic and Literary Quarterly (Two Issues Bound as One). Vol 1. No 1. 1937 and Vol 2 Nos 5-6 1939. The covers are not bound in but all the original lithographs are, featuring the following artists Leger, Miro, Rattner, Bores, Guys, Braque, Rouault, Derain, Bonnard, Matisse, Klee. roversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Verve: An Artistic and Literary Quarterly (Three Issues Bound as One). Spring 1938 (March-June), Fall 1938 No. 3 ( October- December), Winter 1939 No. 4 ( January-March). Covers are bound in as are all the original lithographs, featuring the following artists Kandinsky, Masson,Chagall, Miro, Rattner, Klee, Matisse, Derain. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Paperback. Condition: FINE. First Edition. Complete run of the first four issues of Teriade's legendary art magazine. Beginning with a stunning cover produced by Matisse for the first issue, Verve would incorporate fresh artwork into its cover designed, newly commissioned by artists such as Miro, Picasso, Chagall, and other leading lights of the French art world. Each issue offered spectacular color lithographs printed by the Paris lithographers, Mourlot. Early issues came in litho-printed card wrappers in boxes, later volumes would be in paper-over board with litho covers. This choce allowed Teriade to feature the fresh lithographic artwork in the cover design, but left the books themselves extremely fragile and succeptible to wear. Additionally, the full-page lithographs have been continuous targets for art dealers looking to excise the plates. So condition seen here is quite rare, with each volume preserved COMPLETE + FINE with no signs of the wear and toning so commonly seen. 'The cover of Verve No. 1 is by Henri Matisse; it consists of three unmodulated colors--red, blue, and black--that the master cut directly from printers' ink specimen books. . Mattisse's cover for the first issue, lithographed by Fernand Mourlot printers, was an original work of art created expressly for the magazine--as would be practically all of the Verve's covers. . The painter took great pains to make sure that the cover would turn out exactly as he wished. . THe care Matisse lavished on what others might consider a minor undertaking was one of the hallmarks of Teriade's publications. How did he induce the greatest artists of this century to give the very best of themelves? . Matisse and Teriade shared a common ideal. For both of them, painting was life itself.' (Michel Antonioz, VERVE: The Ultimate Review of Art and Literature, 35-36).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three issues of the vintage French art magazine Verve (1939 1940), bound together in a decorative cloth-over-board volume, with the original covers preserved inside. Covers illustrated by Henri Matisse (Verve No. 8) and Aristide Maillol (Verve No. 5/6). The volume is richly filled with texts and lithographs by artists such as Braque, Rouault, Derain, Léger, and Matisse, along with reproductions by Derain, Picasso, Bonnard, and others.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade PB. 4to. Editions de la Revue Verve/ Draeger Frères, Paris, France. 1939-40. Three volume set in slipcase. Contains, lithographs, drawings, and paintings by Matis, Bonnard, Rouault. Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Calendar. Brassai, Bronte, Goya, Bonnard, and others. Issued with an illustrated paper covered box which is present, but foxed at the edges. Issue #7 glassine DJ is half present with a large piece missing from the front wrapper. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Verve was a modernist Parisian art magazine published by Teriade between 1937 and 1960. It published 38 issues in 10 volumes including lithographs by the most prominent artists of the Parisian Art scene of the first half of the 20th century. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Three volumes of Volume II in the original rare slipcase. All folio sized and Near Fine with no major flaws or markings inside or out. Original Slipcase tight and square with art piece affixed to center front. ISSUES 5 & 6 - July-October 1939 - Bound together as one issue with a stiff illustrated wrapper - illustrated by Maillol with two naked women on both front back in an embrace or dance. July-October 1936. contains lithographs by Constantin Guys (4), George Braque (1), George Roualt (1), Pierre Bonnard (2), Andre Derain (1), Henri Matisse (2) and Paul Klee (1), Leger (1), and Derain (1). Complete. Volume 7 & Volume 8 have stiff but flexible boards with decorated paper wraps with French folds. ISSUE 7 - April-July 1940 - Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry, with 12 color facsimiles, printed separately and mounted at the corners. A Near Fine or better opy, with its original onion skin paper wrapping. ISSUE 8 - September - November 1940 - Dust Jacket decorated by Henri Matisse, who reportedly finished it just days before the occupation of Paris. Fantastic double-paged color lithograph by Pierre Bonnard "Sunset Over The Mediterranean"; the fifteenth century Calendar of C. D Angouleme, heliogravure color and in gold, next to eleven color drawings in red of the annual calendar by André Derain. Reproductions of drawings and paintings of Matisse, Bonnard, Picasso, Derain. Texts by G. Rouaul, G. Braque and A. Malraux and others. Translate in English by R. Sage. This was the last issue of Verve before the Nazi occupation of Paris. Affixed to the title page, a blue note reads: "This Issue of Verve was completed just a few days before the occupation of Paris. Extraordinary difficulties and extremely high expenses were incurred in order to bring copies to America. In spite of the greatest efforts and sacrifices, more than half of the edition has been lost. Because of these circumstances and the small number of copies which eventually reached this country, it has been necessary to establish a price of $3.50 for this issue.".

Paris: 4 Rue Ferou (6e). December 1937-March 1939. Four volumes, folio (355 x 260 mm). Original wraparound colour-illustrated card wrappers, housed in a custom pale blue cloth slipcase lined with marbled paper and a chemise in quarter blue cloth with marbled sides; vol. I, pp. 112, [113-128]; vol. II, pp. 128; vol. III, pp. 132; vol. IV, pp. 140; heliogravure, colour process, and lithographed plates included in pagination; light rubbing to spine tips, extremities, and folds, tears with associated creasing to margins of vol. III, pp. 19-26; overall a bright, clean, very good set; prospectus/order form loosely inserted to vol. I.Sharp, bright copies of the first four English-language issues of one of the high points of twentieth-century periodical publishing, featuring work by many of the greatest artists and writers of the age.Like The Yellow Book (1894-1897), La Revue Blanche (1889-1903), and Blast (1914-1915), Teriade's Parisian Verve review captured the spirit of its moment. The prefatory statement in the first issue boldly declares:'VERVE proposes to present art as intimately mingled with the life of each period and to furnish testimony of the participation by artists in the essential events of their time. It is devoted to artistic creation in all fields and in all forms. [.] It will present documents as they are, without any arrangement which might detract from their naturalness. The value of its elements will depend on their character, the selection of them that has been made and the significance they assume through their disposition in the magazine. That the illustrations may retain the import of the originals, VERVE will utilize the technical methods best suited to each reproduction. It will call on the best specialists of heliogravure in colors and in black and white, as well as of typography, and will not disdain to employ the forgotten process of lithography. The luxuriousness of VERVE will consist in the publication of documents as fully and as perfectly as possible.'These first four issues each bear striking wraparound colour covers by Matisse, Braque, Bonnard, and Rouault respectively, signalling the remarkable range of art and literature within. A brief glance at the contents pages reveals an extraordinary roll call of the greatest artists and writers at work during the early decades of the century: the first issue alone includes writing by Gide, Bataille, Dos Passos, Lorca, Malraux, and Michaux, alongside fine reproductions of paintings by Watteau, Corot, Delacroix, and Courbet, as well as recent work by Matisse, Derain, Bonnard, and Maillol; subsequent issues feature writing by Hemingway, Joyce, Sartre, and many others. First published in December 1937, Verve survived in various forms until 1960. These notably bright copies of the first four issues support John Russell's description of the journal 's[inging] out from the other side of the street in a way that made us run across the road to look [.] more closely.'See Russell, 'Flair for the Grand Gesture: Celebrating a Magazine', New York Times (1988).

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Folio wrappers. Three volume set in slipcase. Good only with chipped spines, owner's name penned on slipcase in good only slipcase with stains and edges worn. Many color plates tipped in. The eighth issue, which was published just before the fall of Paris, is particularly uncommon due to war. More than half the copies normally sent to United States were lost. Contains, lithographs, drawings, and paintings by Matis, Bonnard, Rouault. Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Calendar. Brassai, Bronte, Goya, Bonnard, and others.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The first four issues of the UK edition of one of the most beautiful quarterlies ever made. Includes contributions by so many of the great artists and writers of the period that it is difficult to enumerate, with hundreds of full-page lithographs published in sumptuous colour. All texts translated to English from the French by Robert Sage. Issue 1 - lithographs by Bores, Leger, Miro and Matisse, photographs by Man Ray, Brassaï and Guichard. Texts by Andre Gide, Georges Bataille, Lorca, Malraux, Michaux, Matisse and more. Issue 2 - lithographs by Kandinsky, Braque and others, and textual contributions by Hemingway and James Joyce amoung others. Issue 3 - lithographs by Chagall, Miro and Klee and Bonnard, and texts by Tagore, Valéry and Bataille and more. Issue 4 - lithographs by Derain, Matisse and George Rouault, and photographs by Brassaï, Brandt and others. Includes texts by Lorca and Jean-Paul Sartre. There are two small tears at the margins on two pages of issues 3 and 4, but the group is otherwise in remarkably Fine condition, the colours bright and the pages clean throughout. Housed in a custom made slipcase that is a little frayed at the spine.