Cannes drawing by Jean Cocteau

“Cannes”

Pen drawing c1930’s by Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau was born in 1889 in Maisons-Lafitte, dying in Milly-la-Forêt in 1963. He was a painter, pastellist, potter, lithographer, draughtsman and illustrator. ‘Versatility’ is the word which best sums up Jean Cocteau: the poet: ‘Dance of Sophocles’, ‘Cape of Good Hope’; the author: ‘Les Enfants Terribles’; the playwright: ‘Les Parents Terribles; the film-maker: ‘Blood of a Poet’, ‘Orphée’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, and by no means last, the graphic artist who produced drawings throughout his life and in his final years, paintings.

Cocteau designed the first Ballets Russes poster for Diaghilev.

His work is represented in the Museum of Menton and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow.

Biblio: Bénézit: Dictionary of Painters; Vollmer I, 1953.

Dimensions: 265 x 205