Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574

Sale 2574 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)
"l'Ange Heurtebise." Illustration for his poem of the same title. Ink, colored pencil, and wax crayon, with collage on paper, mounted to thicker stock. 280x222 mm; 11x8 3/4 inches. Initialed "JC*" in lower right corner and titled in Cocteau's hand along top margin.

Cocteau and Man Ray would collaborate to create the first appearance of this work in print, the fine photographic livre d'artiste L'Ange Heurtebise (Paris: Librarie Stock, 1925).

Provenance: Chevalier Tony Clark Collection.