L'Album Verve

L'Album Verve is an abridged edition compiling the contents of all 38 issues (26 volumes) of the French art magazine Verve into a single volume. It is a collection of materials that provides an overview of Verve, published between 1937 and 1960, featuring its covers, illustrations, and key texts.

Verve was an art magazine founded by editor Tériade, known for the participation of 20th-century artists and writers such as Picasso, Matisse, Miró, Chagall, Braque, Giacometti, and Cartier-Bresson. The original edition included lithographs and prints, earning high acclaim as an art publication employing advanced printing techniques of its time.

This book was published through a joint project between Flammarion of France and Yoshii Gallery, and it includes reproductions of the covers of all 38 issues (26 volumes) of Verve, along with key essays and illustrations. It serves as a collection of materials that allows one to trace the history and charm of Verve in a single volume.

[Title] L'Album Verve
[Publisher] Editions Galerie Yoshii
[Publication Date] 1987
[Page Count] 400 pages
[Size] Approx. 27536837mm / 3,230g
[Format] Hardcover
[Language] French
[Title Reading] Album Verve
[Author/Editor] Michel Anthonioz/Author
[Printing] -
[ISBN] 2080120816
[Condition] Used【5】Fair (Case: slight sun discoloration, Dust jacket: spine slightly discolored, slight stains, Book body: several pages from endpaper with slight stains, edges lightly discolored)
[Accessories] Slipcase (lacks separate Japanese translation)
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Michel Anthonioz

French editor and art critic.

Engaged in research on 20th-century French art and publishing culture, and wrote about the history and significance of the art magazine Verve. In this book, L'Album Verve, he organized and explained the content of all 38 issues of Verve, conveying its publishing history and artistic value.

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