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Sold with a photo-certificate from Marie-Madeleine Jolly and Philippe Madeline dated Villfranche, le 17 Juillet 1958
La Machine infernale
Details
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
La Machine infernale
signed upper centre Jean Cocteau and titled lower centre La Machine Infernale, marked and numbered on the reverse Edition originale de Jean Cocteau, Atelier Madeline-Jolly, 8/20
partially glazed white ceramic plate
12¼in. (31cm.) diameter
Conceived in 1957 and executed in an edition of 20
La Machine infernale
signed upper centre Jean Cocteau and titled lower centre La Machine Infernale, marked and numbered on the reverse Edition originale de Jean Cocteau, Atelier Madeline-Jolly, 8/20
partially glazed white ceramic plate
12¼in. (31cm.) diameter
Conceived in 1957 and executed in an edition of 20
Literature
Annie Guédras, Jean Cocteau céramiques catalogue raisonné, Teillet-Dermit, p.129, no.197