May 19, 2022 - Sale 2605

Sale 2605 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

VARIOUS ARTISTS

VERVE. Bound Vol. I & Vol. IV, No. 13. 1938-9 & 1945.


Each approximately 14x10 1/2 inches, 35 1/2x26 1/2 cm. Verve, Paris.
Condition varies, generally A-: Vol. 1: minor abrasions and wear to cover and spine; slight darkening of endpapers and inside pages. In publisher's binding, thick folio, red cloth with silver-lettered spine and cover. Vol. IV: offsetting on Matisse paper covers; contents detached from spine, missing some pages.

Includes bound Vol. 1 (Nos. 2, 3, 4), with nine color lithographs by Kandinsky, Masson, Chagall, Miro, Ratner, Klee & Matisse, all printed by Mourlot; lithographed covers by Braque, Bonnard & Rouault. Number 2 (March-June, 1938), Number 3 (October-December, 1938) and Number 4 (January-March, 1939). Vol IV, No. 13 includes 2 pochoir Matisse plates. Images available upon request.