Mar 13, 2018 - Sale 2469

Sale 2469 - Lot 492

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JEAN COCTEAU
Raymond.

Pencil on paper (double-sided), 1938. 316x241 mm; 12 1/2x9 3/8 inches. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Montargis" in pencil, lower left recto. With a sketch of a couple, verso. A portrait of Raymond Radiguet, famous poet, writer and part of the circle of artists including Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and Jean Cocteau.

Acquired directly from the artist's estate by Tony Clark, a scholar on the artist.