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Skira (publisher)

Swiss publishing firm

Skira Editore and Editions d'Art Albert Skira, also known as Skira, is a publishing firm founded by Albert Skira in Switzerland in 1928 and now based in Italy. The firm is known particularly for its art books[1] of "vastly improved quality of colour reproduction".[2]

Switzerland (1928–1932)

Originally located in Lausanne, Skira soon relocated to Geneva. Albert Skira wanted his firm to publish books in which "the greatest of artists illustrate the best in literature".[1] For that reason Skira's first publications were a number of large scale artist's book editions.[3][4] For the first book, Skira engaged Pablo Picasso to illustrate Ovid's "Les Métamorphoses" with 30 etchings, which were executed in 1930 in Picasso's neoclassical style and published in 1931 in a limited edition.[5] These were followed by further luxury editions of poetry, including Stéphane Mallarmé's collection of poems "Poésies" illustrated with 29 etchings by Henri Matisse. Art historian John Ja

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Albert Skira

Swiss art dealer and publisher

Albert Skira (1904–1973) was a Swiss art dealer,[1] publisher and the founder of the Skira publishing house.[2]

The Skira publishing house, Editions d'Art Albert Skira

Skira founded the eponymous publishing house in Lausanne in 1928, at various times known as Skira, Editions d'Art Albert Skira, and Skira Editore. During the 1930s Skira opened an office in Paris and the publishing house became a meeting place for important artistic figures of the time. In 1933, Skira contacted André Breton about a new journal, which he planned to be the most luxurious art and literary review the Surrealists had seen, featuring a slick format with many color illustrations. Skira's restriction was that Breton was not allowed to use the magazine to express his social and political views. Later that year Minotaure began publication, and continued until 1939.

In addition to Minotaure Skira published several volumes of literature and poetry in the 1930s, both classic and contemporary, that prominently featured origina

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Pierre Skira was born in Paris in 1938, to the great publisher, Albert Skira. The declaration of war a year after his birth forced a move to the Alps, and then, for a time, to Geneva. His childhood was peripatetic, but gave him an introduction to the giants of art at that time; most memorably, he watched Matisse make his paper cut-outs, and stayed with Picasso for a week in the south of France. In 1954, Skira became a typographical apprentice in a Swiss workshop, which gave him a love of books that he later expressed in his paintings and pastels. Two years later, Skira moved to Paris, where he lived within a community of like-minded creatives, and started to paint, influenced by artists such as Franz Kline, Emilio Vedova, and Piet Mondrian. However, he soon abandoned an early interest in abstraction and moved to figuration. He was particularly drawn to painting detailed studies of books in the manner of 17th century art. Skira exhibited for the first time in 1962, Paris, and a solo show was staged two years later, at the time of the emergence of New Figuration. In 1967

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