Jean Cocteau 2021-10-21 Auction - 137 Price Results - Bonhams in Paris - Page 5
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Le Potomak (Conçu en 1914
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Les Eugènes de la Guerre
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Le Mot, Paul Iribe é
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Paris, Paris, France
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Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau: l’Orphée moderne, Bonhams’ sale in Paris this October, is spot on with its title. Like the Greek god Orpheus – whose seductive lyre-playing charmed all creatures – Cocteau was an exotic, talented, fairy-tale creature, who charmed the cutting edge international artistic circles of Paris and beyond for the first half of the 20th century. With his talent for self-promotion, his magic touched minds that seem poles apart, from Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev to the brilliant British economist John Maynard Keynes. And his influence lives on through Cecil Beaton’s photographs (including Beaton’s penetrating images of Cocteau), in Philip Glass’s mesmerising music homage to Cocteau’s film Orphée, and in designers such as Luke Edward Hall. Cocteau considered himself a poet in everything he did. Although he published more than 20 volumes of poetry, ‘poésie’ was how he described his innovative playwriting, librettos, novels and film-directing, as well as his painting, photography, ceramics and free lifestyle. The intrepid American novelist Edith Wharton met Cocteau, then in his early twenties, during her Paris sojourn before the First World War, and later remembered him as "a passionately imaginative youth to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundations of the Heavenly City".

Auction Curator:

Lucia Tro Santafe
Lucia Tro Santafe
Specialist - Impressionist and Modern Art, Prints & Multiples
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Femme se coiffant: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Femme se coiffant signé Jean Cocteau; inscrit et numéroté Edition originale Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/8/20plat en terre blanche et engobe gris
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€1,800
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€2,500
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Trois danseurs; Couple aux: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Trois danseurs; Couple aux cymbales et Faune signé et daté Jean Cocteau 1958; inscrit et numéroté Edition originale Jean Cocteau/Atelier
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€2,000
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€3,000
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Faune aux fleurs (Exé: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Faune aux fleurs signé et daté 1957crayons gras et pastel sur papier 42 x 32,5cm (16 9/16 x 12 5/8in).Exécuté en 1957signed and dated 1957wax crayon and
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€8,000
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€12,000
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Couple joyeux sous le soleil: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Couple joyeux sous le soleil signé et daté 1950crayons de couleurs sur papier 22.5 x 14.8cm (8 7/8 x 5 13/16in).Exécuté en 1950 signed and dated 1950
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€1,500
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€2,000
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Petit Sphinx sur un pié: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Petit Sphinx sur un piédestal cachet de l'atelier mine de plomb sur papier 27.1 x 21.1cm (10 11/16 x 8 5/16in).Exécuté circa 1957with the atelier stamp pencil
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€1,000
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€1,500
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Profil d'Orphée aux: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Profil d'Orphée aux Arabesques signé crayons de couleurs sur papier 36,7 x 26,8cm (14 3/16 x 10 1/4in).signed coloured pencil on paperFootnotes:Le dessin est
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€4,000
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€6,000
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Neree: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Nérée signé et daté Jean Cocteau 1962; inscrit et numéroté Edition orginale Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeleine-Jolly/8/50plat en faience blanche et
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€2,500
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€3,500
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Faune musicien, profil: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Faune musicien, profil signé et daté Jean Cocteau 1958; inscrit et numéroté Edition originale Jean Cocteau/ Atelier Madeline-Jolly/ 25/50plat en terre
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€2,000
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€3,000
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Faune assis: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Faune assis signé et daté 1957crayon Arlequin sur papier41,4 x 29,5 cm (16 1/8 x 11 7/16in).Footnotes:signed and dated 1957coloured pencil on paperCette oeuvre est
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€4,000
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€6,000
Lot Passed
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Indes signé et daté: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Indes signé et daté Jean Cocteau 1958 ; inscrit et numéroté Edition originale de Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/18/20plat en terre blanche et engobe
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€3,000
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€5,000
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Richard de Grab (1927-2001) Collection de quatre: Richard de Grab (1927-2001)Collection de quatre photos représentant Cocteau au Cap d'Ail tampon du photographe au revers de deux photographies quatre photographies sur papier argentique 30 x
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€600
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€800
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JEAN COCTEAU ET EGIDIO COSTANTINI (1912-2013) Tre: JEAN COCTEAU ET EGIDIO COSTANTINI (1912-2013)Tre Occhi gravé Jean Cocteau/E.Costantini/Fucina degli Angeli Venezia/1962 ; dédicacé per Aldo con afetto E.Costantini 8.11.81vase en
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€5,000
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€7,000
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) L'indiscret (Conçu en: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)L'indiscret signé Jean Cocteau; inscrit et numéroté Edition originale Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/25/35vase en terracotta partiellement
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€5,000
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€7,000
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Les Trois Yeux: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Les Trois Yeux signé Jean Cocteau; inscrit et numéroté Edition originale de Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/50/50plat en terracotta, crayons d'oxyde et
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€6,000
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€8,000
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Don du sang: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Don du sang signé Jean Cocteau; inscrit et numéroté Edition originale de Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/5/100plat en terre blanche partiellement
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€2,500
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€3,500
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Asclepios: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Asclépios signé Jean Cocteau; inscrit et numéroté Edition originale Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/11/20plat en faience blanche, engobe mate et
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€4,000
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€6,000
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Double profil blanc: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Double profil blanc signé et daté Jean Cocteau 1957; inscrit et numéroté Edition originale Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly/30/40 plat en faience
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€2,500
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€3,500
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Profil aux points (Exé: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Profil aux points signé et daté 1958crayon sur papier 26.6 x 20.6cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/8in).Exécuté en 1958 signed, titled and dated 1958 pencil on
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€1,500
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€2,000
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AFTER JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Le Théâtre: AFTER JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Le Théâtre signé Jean Cocteau et inscrit Atelier Madeline Laupin E.Abronze doré8 x 7cm (3 1/8 x 2 3/4in).Cette pièce est une épreuve
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€600
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€800
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JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963) Double-profil aux Arabesques: JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Double-profil aux Arabesques cachet de l'atelier et numéroté 59/150lithographie en couleurs55 x 41cm (21 5/8 x 16 1/8in).with the atelier stamp, numbered in pencil
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€500
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€700
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d'après Jean Cocteau, Cyclade bronze concu à: AFTER JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Cyclades signé, daté et numéroté EA 23/50 bronze doré 21,5 x 12,5cm (8 1/4 x 4 3/4in).Conçu en 1926 et fondu circa 1990. Ce bronze est une
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€2,000
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€3,000