Jean Cocteau – Illustrated autograph poem – “Uccello”.

A magnificent study of verses – a first draft – for his poetry collection Opéra. Here, Cocteau lays the versified foundations of his poem Uccello.

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Jean Cocteau (1889.1963)

Autograph poem – Uccello.

A quarto page adorned with drawings and pen sketches.

No place. [1926]

 

A magnificent study of verses – a first draft – for his poetry collection Opéra. Here, Cocteau lays the versified foundations of his poem Uccello : fourteen lines (the last four of which are crossed out) bearing numerous variants with the text finally published by Stock in 1927.

The title itself is repeated several times, Cocteau hesitating: Adorable chanson or chanson adorable , then, crossed out Balance Bérénice , and finally the final title, marked with a star: Uccello.

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She's a bird

Bird of the islands

Cruel scissors

Cutting the eyelashes

Rain that never sat

Birds unfolded

Rainwater

And the headlights

They defend you

To obtain silence

I fight without wings and with my legs in the air, wielding spears.

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Numerous ink stains give the manuscript a strong aesthetic character.

Pen tests and three grid layouts in trellis.

On the back, a sketch of a head in brown pencil.

 

 

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