(2 Volumes) Verve: Vol. 2, No. 8 November 1940 & Vol. VI Nos. 21 & 22 1948

Lot description

(lot of 2) Issues of Verve, including: (1) Verve: The French Review of Art, Volume Two, Number Eight, September-November 1940, published at 4 Rue Ferou, Paris, printed in France, director: E. Teriade, typography and color process work: Imprimerie Studium, heligravure in color and gold: Draeger Freres, lithography: Mourlot Freres, binding: Prache et Cie, includes illustrations after Pierre Bonnard, Andre Derain, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, etc., 78 pages, retains insert referencing a price increase as the issue was completed just days before the occupation of Paris, tear to spine wrap, approx 14.25"h, 10.75"w, 0.5"d, (1) Verve: Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Volume VI (Six), Numbers Twenty-One and Twenty-Two, Editions de la Revue Verve, 4 Rue Ferou, Paris, France, copyright 1948, printed by Draeger Freres, illustrations after Henri Matisse, Vence: 1944-1948, approx 14"h, 10.5"w, 3/8"d; both with wear to bindings, 4lbs total Provenance: from a California collection