VERVE - STRATIS ELEFTHERIADES, detto TÉRIADE. Verve. Revue artistique et littéraire. Paris, Éditions de la revue Verve, décembre 1937 - été 196038 numbers in 26 vols 4to, mm. 363x266. Beautiful original bindings created by the most important French artists of the time. Hundreds lithographs with plates and Colored heliographs. Volumes are in French issue language. Especially specimen in excellent condition. The specimen 31-32 is enhanced with a photo collage by Braque.The Lot is offered with a valid export licence.

Rare complete set of this famous magazine, created in 1937 by Tériade embellished with a photo collage by Braque. The specimen, very rare to find complete with all the bindings and original etchings and in these perfect storage conditions, is enhanced by the impressive photo collages of Braque added to 31-32 double issue devoted entirely to Braque, where are depicted the same Braque and Maillol while viewing a picture of the latter in his studio: photography, mm. 250x345, is glued on cardboard support and is animated by a watercolor retouching in cream and blue. Work beautifully illustrated. With this publication of exceptional quality and rarity, Tériade is placed at the forefront in the field of modern art reproduction. The book is beautifully illustrated: the litho plates are works by Picasso, Chagall, Léger, Miró, Braque, Matisse, Bonnard and many other artists; heliographs reproduce the works of Man Ray, Cartier, Lachaud, Blumenfeld, Brassaï, List, Brandt, Galloway, Rogi-André, Breitenbach and others. Of particular interest are the texts that accompany the work, written by the artists themselves and the most prestigious French intellectuals of the time, including: André Gide, Georges Bataille, Henri Michaux, Pierre Reverdy, Paul Valéry, Jean Paulhan, Alfred Jarry , René Daumal, Henri Malo, Rebecca West, Jean Wahl, Gaston Bachelard. Hommage à Tériade : "Il faut noter l’importance historique des efforts développés particulièrement par Mourlot Draeger dans le domaine de la reproduction. En adoptant la lithographie, alors utilisée souvent à des fins prosaïques (étiquettes, publicité) - mis à part les affiches de Toulouse-Lautrec - Tériade découvrait une manière de reproduire l’art moderne : on sait the succès que la lithographie connut par la suite ". Meyer-Cramer 25 & 42. Hommage à Tériade, exposition au Grand Palais du 16 mai au 3 septembre 1973. On request, we have the complete list of engraved plates, bindings and texts. The Lot is offered with a valid export licence.