Lithograph Pablo Picasso from The folder “ Couleur de Picasso“. 1948

Lithograph Pablo Picasso from The folder “ Couleur de Picasso“. 1948

COA number 7122

Hand signed in black pencil by Picasso

Size with frame 39 cm W x 49 cm H

Size without frame : 26.5 cm W x 35.5 cm H

Original Lithography printed for Les Éditions de la Revue Verve paris France 1948 .

Verve Revue Artistique et Litteraire VOLUME V, Numeros 19 et 20 (VOL. 5, #19 ET 20): Couleur de Picasso - PEINTURES ET DESSINS DE PICASSO - With a Boldly Signed Black pencil By Pablo Picasso

The Verve Review, like its sister publications Derrier Le Miroir and Xxe Siecle, was a Parisian art journal seeking to bring the works of the emergent Modernist and Surrealist painters to a wider public. During its publication history it took a much more vibrant, edgier stance than did some of its contemporaries, concentrating on the works of Surrealists and the Avante Garde in particular.

The Verve Review, from its very inception, was a purposefully luxurious magazine. It ran from 1937 to 1960, but with only 38 editions available, due to the high degree of design and editorial work dedicated to each issue. Each edition contained unique lithographic prints, commissioned by the editor, and each cover a double-page lithograph elaborated by one of the artists contained within. It was the brainchild of its editor Stratis Eleftheriades, a Greek National who moved to Paris in the early thirties to take part in the growing Modernist movement, writing under the name of Teriade (and was the name that he later published the Verve under).