Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
COCTEAU, JEAN. Portrait de Mounet-Sully. 24 pages. 16 illustrations by Cocteau, hand-colored in gouache. Small folio, rebound in 1/4 crushed morocco. Paris: François Bernouard, (1945)
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one of 278 copies printed on handmade isle de france paper (this numbered 325). Cocteau's portrait of Mounet-Sully, the tragedian of the Comédie Française who did not live but rather ". . . sculpted himself with life's emotion."