Description
Original 1939 photogravure (heliogravure) bifolium from Verve Vol. II, Nos. 5-6 (special double number curated by Tériade). One page features Walt Whitman with plate credit BRADY (Mathew Brady); the facing page presents Charles Baudelaire with plate credit NADAR. The verso of the Baudelaire sheet carries the caption “Rodin et sa femme le jour de leur mariage” (Auguste Rodin with Rose Beuret on their wedding day; credit printed in plate-see photos). Intact two-page sheet as issued-ink-on-paper intaglio prints, not modern reproductions. Center fold and inner (gutter) margins preserved with sewing nicks visible. Rich gravure tones with normal perimeter toning; the Whitman page shows scattered surface rubs/handling marks, as photographed. Untrimmed, ready to mat or frame.
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Landmark pre-war Verve issue printed in France under Tériade
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Three marquee subjects on one original sheet: Whitman (Brady), Baudelaire (Nadar), Rodin & Rose
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Genuine photogravures with printed plate credits; excellent candidates for framing
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Approx. size 14 × 20½ in open (each page ~14 × 10¼ in)
Please view all photos for fold, margins, plate credits, and condition details. Ships flat in archival materials.
