PICASSO - VERVE. Couleur de Picasso. Peintures... Lot 364

PICASSO - VERVE. Couleur de Picasso. Peintures et dessins de Picasso. Textes de Picasso et de Sabartès. 1 vol. in-folio. 358x266 mm. Publisher's binding and illustrated dust jacket, 84 unnumbered pages. Many colored and black and white illustrations on plates. Text in French. Fine copy. First edition. This is Volume V, No. 19 and 20 of the famous modernist magazine. The dust jacket is an original composition by Picasso. This combined nineteenth and twentieth issue of Teriade's legendary artistic review "Verve" is a monograph devoted exclusively to the work of Pablo Picasso. Realized under the direction of Teriade, it features front and back covers specially designed by the artist for the project with the master printers Draeger Freres creating the then-state of the art heliogravure illustrations in black and white and colored plates. Included are texts by both Picasso and Jaime Sabartes as well as reproductions of paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, letters, and more.