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Jean Cocteau – Green Profile on Grey Background

Jean Cocteau, Green Profile on Grey Background is an original Pastel on Paper Drawing made in 1955.  It is signed and dated in the lower right.

Jean Cocteau was an enormously influential French artist and writer known as one of the major figures of Dada and Surrealism. With an oeuvre that spanned painting, novels, poetry, plays, and films, Cocteau established himself as a leading creative force in Paris. A regular member of the avant-garde, he maintained long-term friendships with artists such as Pablo Picasso. The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force,” he once mused.

Title

Green Profile on Grey Background

Medium

Pastel on Paper

Year

1955

Edition

Unique

Signature

Signed, dated

Size 12.75 x 10 (in)
32 x 25 (cm)
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Jean Cocteau, Green Profile on Grey Background is an original Pastel on Paper Drawing made in 1955.  It is signed and dated in the lower right.

Jean Cocteau was an enormously influential French artist and writer known as one of the major figures of Dada and Surrealism. With an oeuvre that spanned painting, novels, poetry, plays, and films, Cocteau established himself as a leading creative force in Paris. A regular member of the avant-garde, he maintained long-term friendships with artists such as Pablo Picasso. The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force,” he once mused.

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Title

Green Profile on Grey Background

Medium

Pastel on Paper

Year

1955

Edition

Unique

Signature

Signed, dated

Size 12.75 x 10 (in)
32 x 25 (cm)
Price SOLD