Göteborg, Sweden: Göteborgs Konstnärsklubb. Two issues, N: R 3, [Volume 1, No. 3], 1940; N: R 4 [Volume 1, no. 4], 1940. First editions. Quartos (11.5" x 8.5"), 24 & 28 pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's stapled pictorial card covers. Text in Swedish.
Condition: Modest edge wear, light soiling/ staining to the covers of one issue, occasional minor foxing, otherwise Very Good. Please see photos.
Issued quarterly, these two magazines are from the first year of publication. One features a lithographed cover in color by Nils Wedel the other provides a dramatic black & white lithographed cover signed "T.B."
"Paletten is Sweden's oldest and longest-running art magazine, now in its eighth decade of continuous production. It is published quarterly … Initially Paletten concerned itself primarily with local issues but, over time, broadened its scope to feature national and international art …
Paletten is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where it was founded in 1940. For many years it was published by the Gothenburg Artists Club. Among the first members of its editorial staff were painters Nils Nilsson and Ragnar Sandberg of the Göteborgskoloristerna group as well as Hjalmar Eldh and C.T. Holmström. The magazine's first editor-in-chief was Gunnar Wallin.
In addition to its primary focus on art, Paletten has also published poems and essays by leading Swedish authors including Erik Blomberg, Karin Boye, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Nobel Prize laureate Harry Martinson. Editors of Paletten have included Torsten Bergmark, Rabbe Enckell, Folke Edwards, Leif Nylén, Gertrud Gustavsson (Sandqvist),
Hans Johansson, and Isabella Nilsson …"
~Courtesy Wikipedia.