JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)

Lot 438
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ID 908356
Lot 438 | JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)

Scène d'intérieur (le Satiricon), Encolpe et Giton

signed and dated 'Jean Cocteau 60' (lower left); marked and numbered 'Edition originale/de Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/15/15' (underneath)

terracotta plate with coloured glaze

diameter: 13 1/4 in. (35.3 cm.)

Conceived in 1960 and executed in a numbered edition of 15





Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christies, South Kensington, 25 November 2009, lot 70.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

A. Guédras, Jean Cocteau céramiques, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1989, no. 126, p. 254 (another version illustrated p. 88).



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