JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)

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Lot 436 | JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)

Le cercle de famille

signed 'Jean Cocteau' (lower right), marked and numbered 'Edition originale de/Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/8/20' (underneath)

partially glazed terracotta plate with oxide crayons

diameter: 14 in. (35.5 cm.)

Conceived in 1963 and executed in a numbered edition of 20





Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 25 November 2009, lot 67.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

A. Guédras, Jean Cocteau céramiques, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1989, no. 157, p. 256 (another version illustrated p. 104).



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We are grateful to Catherine Madeline for her help in cataloguing and confirming the authenticity of this work.
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