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Jean COCTEAU - Portrait of Mounet Sully, 1945 - 16 original gouache drawings

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Portrait of Mounet Sully

Very rare copy from 1945 in book format
Editions François Bernouard in Paris
Paperback, 255 x 280 mm
Original edition decorated with sixteen unpublished drawings of the author and gouache by hand.
A signed drawing in the plate
One of 1650 numbered copies on paper Crèvecoeur du Marais (number 592)
Very good condition (see photos of details)

Jean Cocteau and François Bernouard collaborated in 1909 to create the six deliveries of the magazine Schéhérazade Premisses published by Bernouard.

Mounet-Sully is probably the most beautiful collaboration between the writer and the editor, the text and the illustrations in gouache by hand mingling perfectly.

Jean Cocteau : Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) is a poet, graphic designer, draughtsman, playwright and french movie director. He is one of the major artists of the 20th century. He was the impresario of his time, the trend maker, the inspiration of many artists and put his personal touch in all his creations with a singular grace, an inexhausted originality and a rare intuition. Despite his literary works and artistic talents, Jean Cocteau has always insisted on the fact that he was above all a poet and that every work was petic. He let movies which had marked the century, as "Le Sang d'un poète" (A poet's blood), The Beauty and The beast, Orpheus, but also famous illustrations as "Le Livre blanc" (The white book).

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