Christian Zervos

Christian Zervos (Greek: Χρήστος Ζερβός; Argostoli, Cefalonia, Greece, January 1, 1889 – September 12, 1970, Paris) was a Greek-French art historian, critic, collector, writer and publisher.[1]

Better known as an art critic in his own right, Zervos founded the magazine Cahiers d'art (1926–1960) in Paris, and ran an art gallery.

He was a connoisseur of modern painting in his time, and of Greek art and prehistoric art. He published several books, of which the most important are: The Art of Crete, The Art of the Cyclades, L'art de l'époque du Renne en France, and a catalogue raisonné of the work of Pablo Picasso.

M. Christian Durquet, Conservator of Patrimony at the Musée de l'Art Contemporain, ordered the establishment of a Zervos Museum at Vézelay.

Publications

Bibliography

- Index général de la revue Cahiers d’art, 1926-1960, pref. Dora Vallier, Paris, Ed. Cahiers d’art, 1981.

- Chara Kolokytha, 'The Art Press and Visual Culture in Paris during the Great Depression: Cahiers d'Art, Minotaure and Verve' in: Visual Resources, An International Journal of Documentation 3, vol.29, Sept. 2013, pp. 184–215.

- Chara Kolokytha, 'Christian Zervos et Cahiers d'art, Archives de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky' in Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History 4, vol. 82, 2013, pp. 339–342.

- Jean-Pierre De Rycke, “Christian Zervos et Tériade: deux insulaires grecs à la conquête de l'avant-garde européenne”, Paris - Athènes, 1863 - 1940, Pinacothèque Nationale et Musée Alexandros Soutzos. Athènes, 2006.

- Kim Grant, “Cahiers d'Art and the Evolution of Modernist Painting”, The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, v. 1, n. 2, 2010, pp. 216–227.

- Cahiers d'art, Musée Zervos à Vézelay, sous la direction de Christian Derouet, Paris, Hazan, Perrigny, Conseil général de l'Yonne, DL 2006.

-Christopher Green, “Zervos, Picasso and Brassaï, ethnographers in the field: a critical collaboration”, in Malcolm Gee (ed.) Art criticism since 1900, Manchester University Press, 1993.

- Valery Dupont, Le discours anthropologique dans l’art des années 1920-1930 en France, à travers l’exemple des Cahiers d’art, thèse, 1999, Art et Archéologie, Université de Dijon.

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