Dec 14, 2017 - Sale 2465

Sale 2465 - Lot 202

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JEAN COCTEAU.
Abstraction. Published in Le Mot (Paris: Société Générale d'Impression, 1914-15.) Ink on parchment. Image is cut to an uneven oval shape measuring roughly 151x196 mm; 6x8 1/4 inches. Not signed. Tipped to window matte in two places on verso; a few registration marks in blue and red crayon visible in margins. Provenance: Ex-collection William A. Emboden.
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Cocteau founded the important World War I journal, Le Mot, with French designer and artist Paul Iribe in 1914. Its goal was to foster a distinct French style and taste with an anti-bourgeois modernism that lay between conservatism and radicalism. Its artistic and literary contributors included Léon Bakst, Raoul Dufy, Roger de La Fresnaye, André Gide, Albert Gleizes, André Lhote, and Sem, among others.