Double-Number Issue of Verve, The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque

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George Braque; Will Grohmann; Antoine Tudal; Rebecca West. THE INTIMATE SKETCHBOOKS OF G. BRAQUE. Verve, Vol. VIII, No. 31/32. A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1955. English-language edition. Hardcover in paper-covered boards, the cover designed by Braque. Folio; 156, [2]pp. With numerous illustrations including heliogravures and color lithographs.

14 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.

From the Collection of Dorothy and Morris Margolin

"The illustrations in this volume are reproduced from the sketch-books, carnets de travail, which Georges Braque has been keeping up for thirty years and more, and which constitute a daily record of fragments of the visible world that have caught his attention and ideas for paintings that have occured [sic] to him.... Hitherto Braque has always refused to make public these albums, which he takes with him wherever her goes and which comprise the bulk of his work as a draftsman. Now at long last he has authorized the reproduction of a number of pages of these albums, selected by himself with our co-operation."

Boards with scuffing and wear to extremities; some wear to spine with strip separation at head; interior with light age and handling wear. Good to very good.