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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)
Sailor. A study for Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest (Paris; Morijien, 1947). Blue pencil on paper. 355x115 mm; 14x4 1/2 inches, on 16x12-inch sheet. Signed with the artist's star monogram, lower right image. Circa 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.
