Tériade
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| - | "[[L'Apocalypse de Saint-Sever]]" is an essay by [[Georges Bataille]], published in ''[[Documents]]'' 2, 1929 (74-84; 75). It has as subject the [[Apocalypse de Saint- Sever]] and includes five illustrations, one of which is the Flood. [[John Golding]] in ''[[Visions of the Modern]]'' noted that "the strong, somewhat crude colour of [[Picasso]]'s ''[[Crucifixion]]'' suggests that [[Picasso]] might even have seen the original. Both Bataille and [[Teriade]], whom Picasso was seeing at the time, had contacts with the [[Bibliotheque Nationale]]." | + | '''Tériade''' (real name Stratis Eleftheriades - Στρατής Ελευθεριάδης) (1889–1983) was a native of [[Mytilene]] who went to [[Paris]] in 1915 at the age of eighteen to study law, but who instead became an art critic, patron, and, most significantly, a publisher. |
| + | From 1937 to 1975 he commissioned various individuals of the pinnacle artists and philosophers such as [[Picasso]], [[Matisse]], [[René Daumal]] in the first half of the century to produce series of works for his legendary quarterly journal ''Verve'' or the later ''Grands Livres''. | ||
| + | There is a ''Tériade Museum'', which opened in 1979 in the southern Mytilene suburb of [[Varia]]. The books are displayed in sixteen rooms over two floors of the specially built museum. | ||
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| + | In [[France]], there is a donation of Tériade at the [[Matisse Museum (Le Cateau)|Departmental Museum]] of [[Le Cateau-Cambrésis]]. | ||
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Tériade (real name Stratis Eleftheriades - Στρατής Ελευθεριάδης) (1889–1983) was a native of Mytilene who went to Paris in 1915 at the age of eighteen to study law, but who instead became an art critic, patron, and, most significantly, a publisher.
From 1937 to 1975 he commissioned various individuals of the pinnacle artists and philosophers such as Picasso, Matisse, René Daumal in the first half of the century to produce series of works for his legendary quarterly journal Verve or the later Grands Livres.
There is a Tériade Museum, which opened in 1979 in the southern Mytilene suburb of Varia. The books are displayed in sixteen rooms over two floors of the specially built museum.
In France, there is a donation of Tériade at the Departmental Museum of Le Cateau-Cambrésis.
