CAHIERS D'ART
Volume V, No. 6, 1930
Christian Zervos [Editor]
Christian Zervos [Editor]: CAHIERS D'ART. Paris: Cahiers d'Art, Volume V, No. 6, 1930. Original edition. Text in French. Small folio. Thick perfect bound and sewn wrappers. 56 [xii] pp. Black and white illustrated articles and advertisments. Wrappers loosening from textblock. Former owners name stamp and pencil notation to front cover. Textblock edges yellowed and well-thumbed. A nearly good copy.
9.75 x 12.5 perfect-bound magazine with 56 pages of well-illustrated articles and 12 pages of period advertisements.
Contents include:
De L'Importance de L'Objet dans la Peinture D' Aujourd'Hui (III): Christain Zervos. Illustrated with 23 black and white images by Pablo Picasso.
Des Origines de L'Art et de la Culture [III]. Stades du cataclysme lunaire d' apres la Cosmogonie d' Horbiger: Hans Muhlestein
A propos Des Oeuvres Recentes Paul Klee: Roger Vitrac. Illustrated with 10 black and white images by Paul Klee.
Des Sources de L'Art Negre: Dr. J. Maes. Illustrated with 24 black and white images.
Le Greco Sculpteur: Francisco de Cossio.
L'Exposition des "Ages Sombres" au Burlington Fine Arts Club de Londres. Illustrated with 20 black and white images.
Une Maison de Retraite Pour Viellards a Francfort S. Maein [Architects: Mart Stam, Werner Moser, Ferdinand Kramer]: Sigfried Giedion. Illustrated with 16 black and white images.
Maison d'habitation et Ecole en plein Air Pres de Los Angeles [Architecte Richard J. Neutra]: Roger Ginsberger. Illustrated with 4 black and white images.
L' Humour et L'Amour Chez les Animaux: Jacques Bernard Brunius. Illustrated with 20 black and white images from Max Fleischer, Walt Disney and Patt Sullivan.
Notes: L'Architecte Ernst May Appele en Russe: Sigfried Giedion.
Christian Zervos (1889 - 1970) was a Picasso scholar and magazine editor. Zervos began writing art articles for the magazine L'Art d'Aujourd 'Hui, later founding his own journal Cahiers d'Art in 1926. Cahiers featured contributions by scholars and critics alike in a wide range of fields, from prehistoric art to modern and was noted for its layout and presentation as much as its content. Zervos married Yvonne Marion [Zervos] (1905-70) who ran an art gallery next to her husband's shop. During this same time Christian Zervos issued an eclectic variety of monographs, including ones on Henri Rousseau, Greek Art and Frank Lloyd Wright before settling upon his life's work, a catalogue raisonne of Pablo Picasso. Begun in 1932, catalog was completed in 33 volumes after Zervos' death. World War II interrupted many of Zervos' publishing projects, including the Cahiers, which suspended 1941-43, resuming in 1944 to last until the end of his life. His wife's shop, moved to larger premises in 1939 and renamed the May Gallery, exhibited many of the major French artists active between the wars.