JEAN COCTEAU* (Maisons-Laffitte 1889 - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt)

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  JEAN COCTEAU* (Maisons-Laffitte 1889 - 1963 Milly-la-Forêt)
  Male portrait in profile
  pencil/paper, 31,5 x 21 cm
  signed from Jean
  
  ESTIMATE € 400 - 600
  STARTING PRICE € 400
  
  The French universal artist Jean Cocteau was a writer, film director, painter and illustrator. At the age of 17 he published his first poems, which made him famous. The literary friendships he made with Edmond Rostand, Marcel Proust, Catulle Mendès and André Gide gave him valuable inspiration. At the same time he tried his hand at performing ballet and met Igor Stravinsky. He wrote his first novel, “Potomac,” in 1913. In 1917, Cocteau wrote the libretto for the cubist ballet “Parade.” The stage design and costumes were created by Pablo Picasso, the music by Erik Satie, and the choreography by Léonide Massine. The dancers belonged to the Ballets Russes troupe. Cocteau was successful as a playwright and novelist. Under the influence of Pablo Picasso's painting and the Surrealists, he adopted various styles from the last decades. Cocteau was always in contact with artists and filmmakers such as Charlie Chaplin. In the early 1930s, Cocteau made his first feature film, “Le sang d’un poète.” For the film “The Sorcerer's Apprentice” (1933) with the German dancer Jean Weidt, who had fled into exile in France, Cocteau worked with the exiled director Max Reichmann. Cocteau was friends with Jean Marais and is considered his discoverer. Cocteau was also a close friend of the German sculptor Arno Breker. Cocteau and Marais were Breker's models for portrait busts. Cocteau's monumental ceiling and wall paintings caused a stir, for example in the wedding hall of Menton town hall (1958) and in Notre Dame de France in London (1956). In 1954 he became a member of the Academy of Arts in France and Belgium. In 1955 he was accepted into the Académie Française as the successor to Jérôme Tharaud. In 1957 he was elected as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1960, Cocteau was elected French poet laureate. In 1940 he wrote the one-act play “Le Bel Indifférent” for his friend Edith Piaf. Louis Amade wrote a chanson in honor of Cocteau, “Quand il est mort, le poète”, which Gilbert Bécaud published on record.
  
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