Marker on paper

8.25 x 9.5 inches

Inscribed and signed

From front book leaf

Condition: very good. Mildest of toning, faint creasing

About the artist: Jean Cocteau’s multidisciplinary career spanned poetry, theater, filmmaking, drawing, and printmaking, among other pursuits. The French polymath was a leading figure of the Parisian avant garde in the early 20th century and a fixture among Surrealist and Dada circles. Though he is perhaps best known for his writing and filmmaking, Cocteau maintained a healthy drawing and printmaking practice and developed a signature style of spare, whimsical line-work. His visual art belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Courtland Institute of Art in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among other institutions, and his pieces have sold for six-figure prices on the secondary market.