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Lot Essay
Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
The present work is executed on a frontispiece of Verve, the French art periodical founded by publisher Estafros Tériade. The magazine, a French quarterly review of arts and letters, was lavish in design and challenging in content, regularly featuring designs by well-known modern artists of the twentieth century. Thirty-eight issues were published in total between 1939 and 1960.
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
The present work is executed on a frontispiece of Verve, the French art periodical founded by publisher Estafros Tériade. The magazine, a French quarterly review of arts and letters, was lavish in design and challenging in content, regularly featuring designs by well-known modern artists of the twentieth century. Thirty-eight issues were published in total between 1939 and 1960.