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JEAN COCTEAU
Le Fumeur. Pen with pencil on Al Masso laid paper. 270x205 mm; 10 5/8x8 1/8 inches. Signed with the artist's star monogram in pen and ink, lower right recto. Circa 1947.
Provenance: Private collection, Los Angeles.
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.
