Jean COCTEAU – Signed autograph poem – The model of sleepers.
Magnificent study of verse – first draft – for his collection of Opera poems. Cocteau here lays the versified foundations of his poem The Model of Sleepers.
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Magnificent study of verse – first draft – for his collection of Opera poems. Cocteau here lays the versified foundations of his poem The Model of Sleepers.
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Jean Cocteau (1889.1963)
Signed autograph poem – The model of sleepers.
A page in-8° in brown ink, signed in the left margin.
Slight loss in the lower corner and restoration on the back.
Slnd. [1926]
Magnificent study of verse – first draft – for his collection of Opera poems. Cocteau here lays the versified foundations of his poem The Model of Sleepers.
The manuscript, largely crossed out, bears several corrections and references offering numerous variations with the text of the collection finally published by Stock in 1927.
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Sleep is a fountain
Petrifying – The Sleeper
Lying on his distant hand
Is made of colored stone
Blue blood, still blood
The blood of still agate
Flew around the arm
Most skillful revolt
….
This awkward look
Copy of the antique
This sleeper only has dreams
The curtain of the unknown
That his heavy hand lifts
….
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In the upper right corner, Cocteau notes an address in his manuscript: “near the grocery store rue de la grande chaumière…”