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Lot 51 - Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963)
Starting price : 4500€
Pitcher sculpture in red earth, oxide pencils: blue and white, enamels: black, green, red and light blue.
Signed “Jean Cocteau” at the base. Marked “Original edition of Jean Cocteau Atelier Madeline-Jolly” below. Limited edition of 50 copies bears the number “29/50” below. Designed and built in 1958.
Dimensions: 28 x 16 cm.
Bibliography: Listed in the catalog raisonné of Mrs. Annie Guedras, “Jean Cocteau, ceramics, catalog raisonné”, Paris 1989, reproduced on page 184 under number 286, R1802.
Provenance: – Marie Madeleine Jolly and Philippe Madeline (Potters of Jean Cocteau). – By successive transmission. – Private collection in Belgium. “Pottery saved my life!” It saves me from using ink which has become too dangerous because everything we write is systematically distorted by those who read it..."
4500/5500€