Profil à l'étoile

Details

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Profil à l'étoile
titled 'Souvenir du Véfour' (center left); signed, inscribed and dated 'Jean Cocteau Paris 1962' (lower center).
ballpoint pen and ink on buff paper
sight: 10 3/8 x 8 in. (26.4 x 20.3 cm.)
Drawn in 1962

Provenance

Rosamond Bernier, New York (gift of the artist, 1962).

Sale room notice

Please note the title of this drawing is Profil à l'étoile and it was drawn in 1962.

Lot Essay

In the 1940s in Paris, Rosamond Bernier worked as the features editor for Vogue and became close friends with Cocteau. They frequented the restaurant Véfour, where Cocteau would spontaneously sketch on the back of menus and present them as gifts to his close friends, as in the present lot.

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