Sale 2578 | Lot 12
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Sale 2578 - Lot 12
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)
Knight in orange and blue.
Illustration for Cocteau's play "Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde," circa 1937. Colored pencil, drawn on the verso of a lithographed plate from Cocteau's book Pas de Chance, (Paris, 1930) which premiered at Théâtre de l'œuvre on October 14, 1937. 180x180 mm; 7x7 inches, on 11x8 1/2-inch sheet, edges toned. Initialed and with Cocteau Estate inventory number penciled on verso, lower right. Tipped to window matte.
Provenance: Chevalier Tony Clark Collection.
Condition:
Edges toned from matte, not affecting drawing; verso (with lithographed illustration) also toned overall. A few stray pencil measurement marks in margins of recto. Archival tissue used to hinge to matte, one old stray piece of cellotape at top of verso image.