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Jean COCTEAU (1889–1963)
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255
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Jean COCTEAU (1889–1963)
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Jean COCTEAU (1889–1963)
‘Costume for my play, *The Knights of the Round Table*’
Coloured pencil drawing on paper, signed in the bottom right-hand corner and dated 1957, with a handwritten inscription in pen in the top left-hand corner.
34 x 24 cm
(mounted on a silver-coloured metal-edged mat, sun-faded paper with very slight creases at the corners)
*The Knights of the Round Table* is a three-act play by Jean Cocteau, which premiered on 14 October 1937 at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre in Paris. Written in 1937, the play highlights many negative aspects of Merlin, a ‘brilliant yet cruel old enchanter […] perched like a spider at the centre of his web’. This image is linked to the ‘enchantments of drugs’, specifically the opium that Cocteau was consuming in abundance at the time[1].
See original version (French)
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