Jean COCTEAU - Don Quichotte, Original signed ceramic
Don Quixote (1958)
Large ceramic plate
Original decor by Jean COCTEAU, Signed in ceramics
White earth, gray slip
Black, brown, yellow and ocher oxide pencils.
36 cm in diameter
Made in Madeline - Jolly workshops in Villefranche sur Mer in 1958
Limited edition of 50 copies, here the n ° 29
AUTHENTICITY: Certificate of authenticity of the pottery workshop
REFERENCES: Catalog raisonné of ceramics by Jean COCTEAU by Mrs Annie Guedras, # 102
Excellent condition
INFORMATION:
"Picasso told me that if I put a ceramic in the oven I was lost, but I always had the taste to lose myself with delight." This is how Cocteau commented on his work on ceramics.
In 1957; Cocteau meets Madeline - Jolly and, following the path drawn by his friend Picasso, begins to devote himself passionately to the creation of ceramics. He will indulge in this
creation that constitutes a sort of culmination of his artistic expression until his death in 1963.
Did not he say about his ceramics: "The ceramics saved my life! It avoids me to use ink that has become too dangerous because everything we write is systematically distorted ..."
Dimensions :
- Height : 36 cm
- Width : 36 cm
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).
Musée d'art moderne Ceret (France)
Musée Jean Cocteau (France)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Musée de Grenoble (France)
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (The USA)
Phoenix Art Museum (The USA)
Albertina (Austria)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italy)
Nasher Museum of art at Duke university (The USA)
Art Gallery of Hamilton (Canada)
Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum (The USA)
Musée de Pully (Switzerland)
