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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)

Lot 315
30.06.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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£ 7 560
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 990492
Lot 315 | JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)
Estimate value
£ 1 000 – 1 500
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)

Tête d'arlequin sur bleu

signed and dated ‘Jean Cocteau 59’ (lower right); inscribed and numbered ‘Édition originale de Jean Cocteau Atelier Madeline-Jolly 34/50’ (underneath)

white earthenware, blue engobe, blue and white ceramic crayon and yellow, black, green and red enamels

diameter: 10 1/4 in. (26 cm.)

Conceived in 1959 and executed in a numbered edition of 50





Provenance

Armand Pellier, Nîmes, by whom acquired in the 1970s, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

A. Guédras, Jean Cocteau, Céramiques, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1989, no. 221, pp. 141 & 268 (illustrated p. 141).



Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.



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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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