Henri Matisse, cover design for Verve, no 1, Paris, Éditions de la Revue Verve, December 1937

The French tradition of livres d’artiste or éditions-de-luxe inspired the creation of specialist art magazines in the 1930s, and Verve magazine set the standard. During its long run (1937–60), the lavishly designed magazine featured original lithographs and illustrations by artists such as Marc Chagall, Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Man Ray, with articles and prose by Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.