Lot n° 171
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COCTEAU (Jean). Set of 15feuillets, consisting of one signed - Lot 171
COCTEAU (Jean). Set of 15feuillets, consisting of one signed autograph and 14autographs.
Autograph. "Art. Le Gynécée de Rouveyre" (one p. in-folio). Review of the collection of drawings published in 1909 by André Rouveyre at the Société du Mercure de France under the title LeGynécée. Verso, original drawing of Jean Cocteau, androgynous bust portrait (graphite and Indian ink highlights, 19x17cm). -Autograph signed. Title page only: "Lorsque s'ouvrerit Sésame. Contes. 1910" (one p. in-folio). -Autographed. "My poor child, my poor child; under their curved lashes..." Poem (2quatrains on one p. in-8 oblong). -Autograph. "A rare flower he wears..." (1/2p. in-folio). Probably concerning. -Autograph. "Vous viendrez... ce sera l'heure crépuscculaire", "J'ai mis à mes rideaux..., "Gens heureux qui venez de monter un étage..." (17vers on one folio page). -Autographed. "Quand tu disais des vers..." (4tercets occupying 3/4p. in-folio). -Autograph. "Lepaon trompé" (4quatrains on one p.in-folio). -Autograph. "The hermitage is lukewarm..." (3/4pp. folio). -Autograph. "When one is lucky enough to have your name..." (3 lines and a monogram on one p.in-folio). 2 copies with variant. -Autograph. "They escaped from the old picture book..." (14versant occupant 3/4p. in-folio). Sonnet. -Autograph. "Everyone said: I cheat!" (14vers occupying 3/4p. in-folio, with handwritten notes by another hand on verso). -Autograph. "Tesyeux" (14vers occupying 3/4pp. in-folio). Sonnet. -Autograph. "Jahel thinks that in friendship..." (approx. 1pp. in-folio on recto and verso of one leaf). Working notes for his article "En biais" published in Comœdia in November and December 1910. "Unsoleil ruisselant est entré dans mon corps" (12vers aux recto et verso du même feuillet). -Red rose embers..." (some thirty verses, half of them crossed out, on one p. in-4). Preparatory work for his poem "LesMésaventures d'un rosier" published in his collection Vocabulaire by Éditions de la Sirène in 1922.
Attached, a handwritten poem by another hand.
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