Verve Volume, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover with dustjacket designed by Picasso; 84 unnumbered pages; in French; good condition; spine of dj is mostly missing; front and rear covers of dj still presentable but 4-inch tear to front at center left edge and small piece missing from top of rear; spine of book also has splits; contents complete with all tipped in plates attached; library stamp on first page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover with yellow and black dustjacket designed by Matisse; unpaginated art journal with protective plastic overwrap, in French; very good condition; except dj has splits at spine; contents complete including lithograph frontispiece. Foreign shipping may be extra.

First Edition. VERVE, VOLUME 1, NUMBERS 3 Revue Artistique et Litteraire Paris: 1938 First edition, quarterly modernist magazine presenting the cutting edge Art of its time. Wrappers over hardboard, 132pp, 4to (10 1/2" x 14"), signed by noted Canadian, Quebecois artist ALFRED PELLAN with his stamp on the bottom right hand corner. Four original lithographs by Chagall, Miro, Rattner, and Klee well as the Indian Pantheon lithographs. This English Edition focuses on Eastern Art both Muslim and Indian with text by Rabindrinath Tagore and Andre Malraux a.o., Chinese poetry, and numerous examples of eastern paintings and illuminations [with gold stamping on pages] and their influence on modern European Artists such as Matisse, Bonnard, Chagall, Miro, Klee etc. Also present in this issue, and this being only one of several, is a photo set by Gaetan Fouquet on the Hindu portfolio. A multifaceted presentation of all a modern magazine could and should be from its variety, to its excellent reproductions. This copy is in splendid shape, showing some slight wear, good to very good. Signed.