VERVE, AN ARTISTIC AND LITERARY QUARTERLY, ('the most beautiful magazine in the world')

Volumes 1 & 2, numbers 1 to 8 (numbers 5 & 6 in one), December 1937 to September/November 1940

With Volume VI, No. 24 and Volume II, Nos. 27 & 28 (in one), 1950 & December 1952

Illustrated card wrappers, profusely illustrated with colour and black & white plates and illustrations, some of the wrappers are frayed at the top and bottom of the spines, some bindings loose and some plates loose, Number 7. Très Riches Heures du Duc du Berry with the glassine wrapper which is frayed, overall a good set.

Verve (1937–60), a modernist Parisian art magazine published by Tériade between 1937 and 1960.[1] The magazine was first published in December 1937. The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris. 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. In addition, the early contributors included James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway (also André Malraux, André Gide, Matisse, Chagall, Miro, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brassai, Kandinsky, amongst many others. A series of colour lithographs of The Indian Pantheon). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verve_(1937%E2%80%9360)

Excerpted from the website for DTMAGAZINE [Magazine of the Week: Paris and the Art World of the Late 1930s in Verve magazine by Rick Gagliano, 10/12/06]. "When it comes to quality in the magazine process, possibly no other magazine can match the work of publisher Efstratios Teriade (born in Greece as Efstratios Eleftheriades) and his seminal publication, 'Verve' -- once called 'the most beautiful magazine in the world' by one of its backers - which first burst onto the streets of Paris in December of 1937 . . . . Teriade, an ex-law student with more zeal for the art world and publishing than the law worked variously with fellow countryman Christian Zervos on 'Cahiers d'Art' (1926-31), as art critic for the newspaper 'L'Intransigeant' (1928-33), artistic director of 'Minotaure' (1933-36) and co-founder (1935-36) of 'La Bete Noire' before founding 'Verve' with the financial assistance of David Smart, publisher of 'Esquire' and 'Apparel Arts.' . . . The magazine, a quarterly review of arts and letters, was lavish in design and challenging in content. Teriade's view of the world of art and literature was personal, bold and compelling. The 38 issues that proceeded through Europe's war-torn years and ended abruptly in 1960 were a promenade of covers and interior art by Chagall, Bonard, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, and other distinctive artists of the Paris School. Photographs by Man Ray, Dora Maar, Matthew Brady, Brassai, Cartier-Bresson, Blumenfeld graced many pages and accompanied articles and prose by luminaries of none less identity than John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Andre Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Gide, Albert Camus and others of note, often the presented artists themselves." http://modernism101.com/products-page/art-photo/verve-an-artistic-and-literary-quarterly-volume-1-numbers-2-4-march-1938-march-1939-e-teriade-directeur-paris-6e-4-rue-ferou-1938-1939/)