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JEAN COCTEAU (1889 - 1963)
L'officier nu. Pen and ink with colored pencil and wash on buff wove paper. 245x163 mm; 9 3/4x6 3/8. Signed with the artist's star monogram in pen and ink, lower right recto. Circa 1947.
A study for Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest (Paris: Morihien, 1947). The 29 drawings that Cocteau created for the first edition of Genet's novel were bold, graphic, and daring in their erotic rawness. It remains among his best-known works.
