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Amedeo Modigliani, Jean Cocteau, 1916, Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum Le combattant by Jean Cocteau, c. 1940, ink and ink wash on paper, 26.5 x 21 cm. Private collection Portrait of Jean Cocteau by Federico de Madrazo y Ochoa, c. 1910–1912 Érik Satie, Parade, thème de Jean Cocteau
A documentation centre for Cocteau's work is based at the museum, which contains books, magazines, journals, catalogues, and monographs on Cocteau. [7] An Office of Graphic Art at the museum conserves the collection when not on display. [8] The museum also features a cafe, shop, and spaces to hire. [9]
The original collection was made up of 102 pieces selected by Jean Cocteau specifically for this museum, including 70 drawings, 2 paintings, 3 lithographs, 2 tapestries and 11 ceramic pieces, all colorful works from Cocteau's Mediterranean period (1950–1963).
The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by Picasso), and we are given an extensive tour of the artwork. Cocteau also shows us several dozen paintings, most of which cover mythological themes. He also proudly shows paintings by Edouard Dermit and Jean Marais and plays around his own home in Villefranche.
The Jean Cocteau House at Milly-la-Forêt. The Jean Cocteau House was the residence of the French poet, artist, playwright and film maker Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), which he purchased with the film actor Jean Marais in 1947, and where he created many of his later works before his death in 1963.
Orpheus, original title Orphée, is a stage play written by Jean Cocteau, produced in Paris 1926 by Georges Pitoëff and Ludmilla Pitoëff, with decors by Jean Hugo and costumes by Coco Chanel. [1] The play was the first major work for the theater written by Cocteau. It is based on the myth of Orpheus, dealing largely with the supernatural. [2]
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States
Les Enfants Terribles is a 1929 novel by Jean Cocteau, published by Editions Bernard Grasset.It concerns two siblings, Elisabeth and Paul, who isolate themselves from the world as they grow up, an isolation which is shattered by the stresses of their adolescence.
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