Jean Cocteau
The Ingenue, c. 1963
Ceramic, curved plate in white clay, black, grey-blue and golden yellow engobes, mauve, turquoise, and yellow oxide
height/width 12 1/2 x depth 1 7/8 in
height/width 31.8 x depth 4.8 cm
height/width 31.8 x depth 4.8 cm
Editioned 1 of 40
Signed by the artist, 'Jean Cocteau', incised on face; and engobe 'Edition originale de Jean Cocteau Atelier Madeline-Jolly 1/40' on base
Copyright The Artist
$ 12,500.00
‘L’Ingénue’, 1963 by Jean Cocteau is a filmic and poetic reference to the innocence and unsophisticated-a place of wonder and beginnings. His ceramic works were born during his friendship with...
‘L’Ingénue’, 1963 by Jean Cocteau is a filmic and poetic reference to the innocence and unsophisticated-a place of wonder and beginnings. His ceramic works were born during his friendship with Marie Madeleine Jolly and Philippe Madeline at their workshop in Villefranche sur Mer in the late 1950s.
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“…I visited the uncultivated terraces of an exquisite pottery above Villefranche. Wild lilacs, irises and wallflowers perfume the air. A young baker from Lebanon, powdered with plaster, fills the ovens with incombustible flat cakes made by Marie-Madeleine as a feast for the eyes. All this, in the invigorating hilltop air, resembles a lonely farm untouched by the miasma of modern life…” -Jean Cocteau, 1958
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Jean Cocteau was born 1889 as Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau and died a renowned and multi-faceted poet of art forms as Jean Cocteau in 1963 at age 74 in France. He is known for his poetry, films, drawings, novels, plays, and visual art. His courage of personhood in romantic relationships and loyal friendships sit alongside his accomplishments as a major figure in Surrealism, Dadaism, Modernism, and beyond.
Very good condition for artwork of this period.
Vintage
Bibliography : Annie Guédras, Jean Cocteau Céramiques catalog raisonné, Teillet et Dermit,
Saint Ouen
1989, model reproduced under the n°200 p.131
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“…I visited the uncultivated terraces of an exquisite pottery above Villefranche. Wild lilacs, irises and wallflowers perfume the air. A young baker from Lebanon, powdered with plaster, fills the ovens with incombustible flat cakes made by Marie-Madeleine as a feast for the eyes. All this, in the invigorating hilltop air, resembles a lonely farm untouched by the miasma of modern life…” -Jean Cocteau, 1958
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Jean Cocteau was born 1889 as Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau and died a renowned and multi-faceted poet of art forms as Jean Cocteau in 1963 at age 74 in France. He is known for his poetry, films, drawings, novels, plays, and visual art. His courage of personhood in romantic relationships and loyal friendships sit alongside his accomplishments as a major figure in Surrealism, Dadaism, Modernism, and beyond.
Very good condition for artwork of this period.
Vintage
Bibliography : Annie Guédras, Jean Cocteau Céramiques catalog raisonné, Teillet et Dermit,
Saint Ouen
1989, model reproduced under the n°200 p.131
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