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Lot Essay
See the inside of the front cover for a 1958 photograph of Cocteau working on this lot.
Details
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Visage
signed 'Jean Cocteau' (lower left); inscribed and numbered 'Edition originale de Jean Cocteau / Atelier Madeline - Jolly / 25/30' (underneath)
terracotta pitcher with coloured engobe and glaze
Height: 10 5/8 in. (27.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1958 and executed in a numbered edition of 30
Visage
signed 'Jean Cocteau' (lower left); inscribed and numbered 'Edition originale de Jean Cocteau / Atelier Madeline - Jolly / 25/30' (underneath)
terracotta pitcher with coloured engobe and glaze
Height: 10 5/8 in. (27.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1958 and executed in a numbered edition of 30
Literature
A. Guédras, Jean Cocteau, céramiques, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1989, no. 285, p. 183 (another example illustrated pp. 4, 182 & 183).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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