Cahiers d'Art

Christian Zervos met and married Yvonne Marion in 1932. The same year, Yvonne Zervos presented a selection of Mondrian’s works in the premises of Cahiers d’Art. The gallery firmly established itself in 1934 with exhibitions of Miro, Kandinsky, Ernst, Arp, Hélion, Giacometti. The Zervoses stopped their activities during the war and only resumed after the Liberation of Paris. They even publish an important Cahiers d’Art issue in 1945, just after the war. In 1947, the Zervoses, together with the poet René Char, organized an exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculptures for the first Festival d’Avignon, an event that became a permanent fixture in European cultural life.

After the war, the revue Cahiers d’Art became a single annual issue and ceased publication in 1960.