CAHIERS D’ART

Paris: Cahiers d’art, 1960. 4to. Seven issues. Five issues of the famous art periodical Cahiers d’Art as well as monographs by two of its most important contributors. The collection includes the following five issues:
1. Vol. 8, No. 5-6 (1933). Folio. pp. [173-208], 209-252 (excluding the numerous pages of advertisements). Small tear to spine, text unglued from wrappers, some staining. This issue includes articles on a number of artists, including Jean Duvet, Juan Gris, Max Ernst, K. Ghika, and Alex-andre Calder, among others.
2. Vol. 13, No. 3-10 (1938). Folio. pp. [69]-236 (again excluding ads). Tear in upper portion of spine, some foxing on cover; interior excellent. The Picasso-Le Greco issue.
3. Vol. 24, No. 1 (1949). Folio. 176 pp. Cover and lithography by Miró. This is a fine example of Zervos’ collaboration with the artist.
4. Vol. 30 (1955). Folio. 279, [1] pp. Includes articles on Jacques Villon and Constantin Bancusi.
5. Vols 31-32 (1956-1957). Large folio. Publisher’s cloth, original dust jacket, all in excellent condition. Includes articles on Picasso, Léger, Braque, on the state of pho-tography as art, Wifredo Lam, Antoine Pevsner, and much more.
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1. [ZERVOS, Christian]. Pablo Picasso 1930-1935. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d’Art, 1936. Folio. 108 pp. Numerous full-page reproductions. Publisher’s cloth. This is the second of thirty-three volumes that were published between 1932 and 1978. The text includes a photograph of Picasso by Man Ray with his stamp signature along with reproductions, a color lithograph, and text from Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, and Julio Gonzales. Zervos’s volumes remain the quintessential reference for Picasso and his work.
2. VALLIER, Dora. Serge Poliakoff. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d’Art, 1959. Folio. 100, [2] pp., includ-ing contents and limitation page. Publisher’s cloth, original dust jacket; in excellent condition. First edition of the best biography of Poliakoff (1900-1969), a Russian-born French modernist painter.
Christian Zervos (1889–1970) was a Greek historian, collector of (mostly) French art, and writer. He established his art gallery, publishing house, and magazine all under the name Cahiers d’Art in 1926. The magazine ran from 1926 to 1960 and was only interrupted between 1941 and 1943 dur-ing World War II. During this time, Zervos published ninety-seven issues of Cahiers d’Art as well as fifty books. Recently, in 2012 the publication was re-launched by the Swedish collector Staffan Ahren-berg. The success of this legendary magazine is attributed to its impactful typography and layout, among other things. Additionally, Cahiers d’Art often produced original artwork through its collabo-ration with artists like Joan Miró and Marcel Duchamp. The text was equally stimulating and includ-ed writing from Samuel Beckett, René Char, Paul Éluard, Ernest Hemingway, Jacques Lacan and Tristan Tzara. Moreover, Zervos and other contributors often included African, Asian, Mesoameri-can, and Pacific Island art alongside discussions of early twentieth-century European art, architecture, theater, and film.